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transport
has definitions from the fields of transportation,business,physics
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[ verb ] (transportation) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
Used in print ("National Affairs"...)Frog-marched off the airplane at 1 : 48 p. m. , the Beardens were held in bail of $ 100000 each on charges of kidnapping and transporting a stolen plane across state_lines . (Hal Kelly, "Build Hotei"...)A Gator trailer , Model 565 , is used to transport the boat to the waterways . |
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[ noun ] (transportation) something that serves as a means of transportation
Synonyms Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)Should not everyone have been awakened to_it as an outstanding fact of our time that the nations poisoned by anti-Semitism proved less fortunate in regard_to their own freedom than those whose citizens saved their Jewish compatriots from the transports ? (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)A 6 - year study of the transport properties of air at elevated temperatures has been completed . |
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[ verb ] move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
Synonyms Examples "You must carry your camping gear" "carry the suitcases to the car" "This train is carrying nuclear waste" "These pipes carry waste water into the river" Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)The way in which it transports its pollen is not so perfect , either . |
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[ verb ] hold spellbound
Used in print Clerfayt , transported , may think_of the engine driving his car as `` a mystical beast under the hood '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (physics) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
Used in print (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)This project was carried_out under sponsorship of the Ballistic_Missile_Division_of_the_Air_Research_and_Development_Command , U._S._Air_Force , and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat_energy of chemical binding . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (transportation,business) the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
Synonyms Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities - the rubber factories in Akron , Chrysler 's Detroit plants , U._S._Steel 's Pittsburgh works - often began on these sites at_a_time when that was the edge of the city , yet close to transport ( river ) , storage ( piers ) and power ( river ) . |
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[ noun ] a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
Synonyms Examples : "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens Related terms |
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[ verb ] send from one person or place to another
Synonyms Examples "transmit a message" |
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[ noun ] a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
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