transport
/ˈtɹæns.pɔɹt/ noun B1- An act of transporting; conveyance. · The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.
- The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
- A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
- A tractor-trailer.
- The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system. · The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.
- A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
- A deported convict.
Plural transports
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“Mercédès seized Fernand’s hands with a transport which he took for love, but which was only joy at being no longer alone in the world, and seeing at last a friend, after long hours of solitary sorrow.
Oh, what hours of transport we shall spend!
We beg them to take one step backward, and to transport themselves, the morning of that day of great catastrophes, into the showy, gilded salon we have before shown them, and which was the pride of its owner, Baron Danglars.
It seamlessly stitched a sprawling, geographically disparate country into a highly unified economic entity, facilitating the rapid transport of commercial goods.
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