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transport

How to use transport in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for transport.

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You can travel by public transport but a special card with chip and login/logout is required.

Examples11
Definitions11
Parts of speech2

Quick take

something that serves as a means of transportation

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of transport gathered in one view.

noun

something that serves as a means of transportation

noun

an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

noun

the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for transport.

noun

something that serves as a means of transportation

See also: conveyance

noun

an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

noun

a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens

See also: ecstasy, rapture, exaltation, raptus

noun

a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

verb

move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

verb

move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "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"

See also: carry

verb

transport commercially

See also: send, ship

Example sentences

1

You can travel by public transport but a special card with chip and login/logout is required.

2

NYC for me has the ultimate public transportation system.

3

How about attaching an external USB hard drive and, perhaps keeping all your dev work there for easy transport to your desktop?

4

If you accidentally have a few shorter tails in the group and if you use a bag to transport them then you could be put in prison for 8 years.

5

When boarding planes in another country you hear about the "TSA" and you're like "who the hell is this International body that rules transport?".

6

Instead of behaving like a normal immune system these mutated cells did nothing but fill up my blood stream, inhibiting the growth and transport of normal white blood cells and platelets.

7

We see SQL not as primarily a transport between the reality of the code and some kind of storage mechanism, but rather as a general purpose data restructuring tool.

8

Business validation is optional and doesn't enhance the transport-layer security benefits of using SSL.

9

Honeywell has already announced that is working on "touchscreen-enabled avionics for the next-generation air transport and business aviation cockpits" [1].

10

We didn't know enough about pianos to know better, so we spent considerable time and effort to transport it 40 miles and up a short flight of stairs into our new home... only to dismantle it by hand less than a year later and slowly throw it away.

11

People from the guys that work in mines to gather materials to make your computer internals, to guys that transport gas and flip switches at energy plants so that you can have electricity, to the guy that flips your burgers when you go to the fast food joint across the street, to the guy that cleans your offices.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use transport in a sentence?

You can travel by public transport but a special card with chip and login/logout is required.

What does transport mean?

something that serves as a means of transportation

What part of speech is transport?

transport is commonly used as noun, verb.