transportn.
/ˈtrɑːnspɔːt/, /ˈtranspɔːt/, U.S. /ˈtræn(t)sˌpɔrt/ 1. † b. figurative. Transference. Obsolete.† c. Transfer or conveyance of property. Obsolete.Apparently the earliest use in English. It is the regular term for ‘transfer of shares’ in the Minute Books of the East India Company 1624–28.
a. The action of carrying or conveying a thing or person from one place to another; conveyance.
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society > travel > transport > [noun]
carryinga1382
passinga1382
carriage1423
portage1423
traduction1500
transporting1500
conveyancec1520
transportation1540
convoy1554
wafting1559
transportage1562
convey1587
portation1598
transportance1609
transport1611
weftage1615
conducta1618
vecture1625
vectitation1656
transit1753
messagerie1878
conveyal1886
intermodalism1979
the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting
adductiona1398
carriage1423
conveying1483
transporting1500
conveyancec1520
convey1587
transportance1609
transport1611
transvection1615
transportal1837
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Trasporto, a transportation, a transport.
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 11 The Bill against transport of golde and sylver.
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 12 Undertaking the Transport of his Family.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. ix. i. 277 Availing himself of the Jamna and Ganges for the transport of his stores and part of his army.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. vi. 251 Sale at prices sufficient to cover the whole cost of transport.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 634 The Conducting Tissue for the transport of the formative materials.
1894 Geol. Mag. Oct. 470 In the same way the beds at Moel Tryfaen are regarded as examples of glacial transport.
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. i. 10 Many are now poor wandring beggars..who are descended of..great Kings and Emperours, occasioned..by the transport and revolution of Kingdomes and Empires.
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society > law > transfer of property > [noun]
release1344
alienationc1425
conveying1483
transportc1485
state making1487
conveyance1523
designation1573
transferring1573
assignation1579
dispose1591
assignment1592
convey1592
disposing1638
disposurea1649
attornment1650
abalienation1656
transfer1674
disposal1697
conveyancing1714
transference1766
disposition1861
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 124 Men takis landis..and syne makis transport of thame, and puttis thame jn othir mennis handis.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 258 The sayde renounciacion, transportes, sessynge, and leauynge of all the sayde thynges.
1607 E. India Co. Court Bk. II. 59 (MS.) Notwithstanding the transport made at the last Court of Mr. Bramley's adventure by Agnes Smyth to Mr. Robert Sandie.
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 55 By this Endorsement, he to whom the Bill is sent, is the true and right Possessor of it, and needs no further Assignation, Transport, or any other Title or Right.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > metaphor
figure1435
transumptionc1449
metaphora1500
tropology1519
translation1534
inversion1538
transport1589
tralation1620
iconism1656
tralatition1864
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 149 To call the top of a tree, or of a hill, the crowne of a tree or of a hill..because such terme is not applyed naturally to a tree, or to a hill, but is transported from a mans head to a hill or tree, therefore it is called by metaphore, or the figure of transport.
3. The state of being ‘carried out of oneself’, i.e. out of one's normal mental condition; vehement emotion (now usually of a pleasurable kind); mental exaltation, rapture, ecstasy. Also with a and plural, an instance of this, a fit of joy or rage; sometimes transferred an ecstatic utterance.
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the mind > emotion > [noun] > fit of emotion
transport1658
the mind > emotion > passion > [noun]
bruneOE
passionc1390
transport1658
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [noun]
moodOE
cheerc1225
affecta1398
statec1450
mindc1460
stomach1476
spiritc1480
humour1525
vein1577
frame1579
tune1600
tempera1628
transport1658
air1678
tift1717
disposition1726
spite1735
tonea1751
the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > fit of violent emotion
furyc1374
ecstasyc1384
ethroclytes1485
extremity1509
vehemency1612
rapturea1616
rapture1620
fit1654
transport1658
vehemence1741
orgasma1763
rave1765
rampage1860
brainstorm1861
tear1880
maenadism1883
the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a state of intense excitement
fireworks1598
transport1658
adrenaline rush1969
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun]
ravishment1477
exaltationa1513
ecstasy1526
enragement1596
rapture1598
trance1598
transportation1617
raptery1640
enravishment1656
transport1658
rapturousnessa1687
sublimation1816
raptus1845
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words A Transport,..also a sudden trance, or rapture of minde.
1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xiii. 84 Can you imagine into what transports it will cast your soul to hear the praises of the Creator sung by all his Works?
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 146 An unheard-of Transport of Fury.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 109 The letter was received with transports of joy.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. viii. 144 When the first transports of rage..were over, he..returned to all his former indolence. View more context for this quotation
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxvi. 413 He was hailed with transport wherever he appeared.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love i. 12 She experienced a keen paroxysm, a transport, as if she had made some incredible discovery.
1953 E. Jones Sigmund Freud I. xi. 275 A female patient suddenly flinging her arms around his neck in a transport of affection.
1978 A. S. Byatt Virgin in Garden xviii. 185 Almost she expected him to rouse himself and roar out transports of self-reproach or self-referring ecstasy, either of which would have embarrassed her profoundly.
1981 A. Schlee Rhine Journey ix. 111 She had gone on to describe..the gentle transports she would expect her sensitive nature to endure, the blameless pious raptures.
4. A means of transportation or conveyance; originally a vessel employed in transporting soldiers, military stores, or convicts; later, the horses, wagons, etc. employed in transporting the ammunition and supplies of an army; = transport plane n. at Compounds 2; sometimes including the things so conveyed. Cf. tape transport n. at tape n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores
flute1666
transport1694
transport-ship1694
transport-vessel1700
troop-boat1816
lobster-smack1829
lobster-box1833
troop-ship1861
troop-steamer1862
trooper1872
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > vehicles for transport of supplies collectively
charreyc1300
transport1879
1694 [see transport-ship n. at Compounds 2].
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 140 At Five in the Afternoon, the Transports row'd for the Town of Guayaquil.
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) VII. 72 [He] took three thousand men of regular troops or of militia, which he embarked upon twenty-five transports.
1834 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula (Rtldg.) II. xvi. iii. 341 From the scarcity of transports only 38 guns could be brought to the trenches.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 411 The Dee was crowded with men of war and transports.
1879 A. Forbes in Daily News 13 June 5/5 That all-important element in campaigning, the transport, including in that term the animals, the waggons, and the supplies.
1897 S. L. Hinde Fall Congo Arabs 86 One woman and a boy acted as transport.
1900 Dundee Advertiser 17 May 4 All our larger transport has arrived without mishap. The men and horses are standing the continuous strain admirably, notwithstanding the heavy roads.
1940 Times (Weekly ed.) 7 Aug. 23 German tactics in attacking aerodromes, from the first attempt to divert the fighters to the arrival of low bombers and the landing of parachutists and troop transports are now well known.
1943 C. Milburn Diary 11 Apr. (1979) 174 Forty transports going to supply the Axis were brought down.
1970 Nature 15 Aug. 655/2 The project to build a supersonic transport has run into renewed complaints from the environmentalists.
1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far ii. i. 79 Transports to carry paratroops and tow-planes to pull the gliders must be diverted from their normal task of supplying the advancing armies and grounded.
5. A transported convict; a person under sentence of transportation. Now rare.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > transported convict
transport felon1766
transport1767
croppy1800
canary1827
legitimate1827
canary bird1839
transportee1883
1767 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 58/2 Fourteen transports from Durham..were put on board..bound for Virginia.
1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) 386 The county has for some years..clothed such transports as were quite indigent.
1817 2nd Rep. Comm. Police Metrop., Min. Evid. 392 Have you ever known any instances of returned transports obtaining licences to keep public houses?
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xix, in Writings I. 199 You don't mean to say..that you are an escaped transport?
Compounds
C1. General attributive.† transport felon n. Obsolete
transport-agent n.
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1897 J. K. Laughton in Dict. National Biogr. LII. 156/2 He was appointed transport agent for the expedition to Egypt.
transport-carriage n.
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1895 Daily News 18 Oct. 5/5 Dr. Hönig's new bicycle transport-carriages for sick people.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > transported convict
transport felon1766
transport1767
croppy1800
canary1827
legitimate1827
canary bird1839
transportee1883
1766 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 134/2 Three hundred transport felons..have been shipped at Blackwall for the plantations.
transport-hoy n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > types of
hulkc1420
wherry1443
hoy1495
wherry-boat1538
boyart1545
hurk1598
bilander1656
galliot-hoy1665
transport-hoy1705
flat-boat1801
shoy-hoy1840
hack boat1863
blood boat1873
blood boat1889
ro-ro1978
1705 London Gaz. No. 4167/3 This day came into Kingroad..two Transport-Hoys.
transport-labour n.
transport-officer n.
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1917 W. Owen Let. 4 Feb. (1967) 431 It doesn't necessarily mean a job as Transport Officer straight away.
transport-service n.
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1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 584 A resolution then passed for 142,500l. for the transport service.
transport-wagon n.
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1866 J. Leyland Adventures Far Interior S. Afr. 11 I travelled by a Dutch transport waggon.
1936 in N. Rouillard Matabele Thompson ii. 46 I found myself at no great distance from a transport waggon, laden with goods intended for a trader in the north.
transport worker n.
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1903 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 5/2 The railwaymen, who are federated with the transport workers, declining to handle any traffic which had been unloaded by ‘free’ labourers.
C2. † transport deed n. Obsolete = transport brief n.
transport-bill n. = transport debenture n.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1710 London Gaz. No. 4637/3 Lost.., four Transport-Bills,..being for two Months Freight each on the Ship Success,..Signed by..her Majesty's Commissioners for Transportation.
transport brief n. a transfer-deed.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun]
releasea1393
conveyance1576
pancart1577
panchart1587
assignment1592
common assurances1648
chirograph1727
transport brief1895
transport deed1895
1895 J. Brown Pilgrim Fathers iv. 124 It was conveyed..by a transport brief or deed made on the 5th of May 1611.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun]
releasea1393
conveyance1576
pancart1577
panchart1587
assignment1592
common assurances1648
chirograph1727
transport brief1895
transport deed1895
1895Transport deed [see transport brief n.].
transport-buoy n. a buoy used for the mooring and warping of vessels.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > buoy > buoy for warping or mooring vessel
transport-buoy1793
warping-buoy1874
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §102 The use that was made of Transport Buoys, in the moving and mooring the king's ships in the Hamoaze.
transport café n. a roadside café for lorry-drivers.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > café or tearoom
tearoom1733
café1802
tea-garden1802
estaminet1814
cafeteria1839
coffee palace1879
coffee parlour1894
zinc1914
caff1931
pull-in1938
transport café1938
pantry1948
relais1957
kayf1962
izakaya1987
1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night i. 15 At St. Albans a lorry-driver was sitting hunched up at the counter of a transport café.
1959 Manch. Guardian 29 July 14/3 On the London–Birmingham motorway..there will be..two transport cafés, but only one restaurant.
1978 C. A. Berry Gentleman of Road xiii. 130 A welcome stay at the transport café..on the strength of two cups of tea.
† †transport debenture n. Obsolete a voucher given for a claim for transport services.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1707 London Gaz. No. 4311/3 A Transport-Debenture for the Year 1697. No. 32. for 965 l. 3 s. 4 d. is lost.
Transport House n. the name of the former headquarters of the Labour Party, used as a synonym for the Labour Party leadership.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Labourism > Labour Party > headquarters or leadership of
Transport House1937
1937 New Statesman 11 Sept. 364/2 This new orientation fits in exactly with that of the political wing of Transport House.
1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 124/2 On the Labour side, it does not appear as though Transport House is even thinking of coming to grips with reality.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 72 If we as a Cabinet have neglected our relationship with the Parliamentary Party we have equally neglected our relations with Transport House and the Party outside.
transport number n. Physical Chemistry the proportion of a current flowing through a particular electrolytic solution which can be attributed to the movement of any given ion species; = transference number n. at transference n. Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > chemistry > ions, ionization, or electrolysis > [noun] > electrolysis > transport number
transport number1897
transference number1898
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > ion > [noun] > proportion attributed to species
transport number1897
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrolysis > [noun] > ion > current attributed to
Hittorf transport (or transference) number1892
transport number1897
1897 M. M. P. Muir tr. R. Lüpke Elem. Electro-chem. i. iii. 43 A Cu ion will pass over two of six spaces, and a SO4 ion will pass over four in the same time. The quotients 2/ 6 = 0·33 and 4/ 6 = 0·66 are called by Hittorf the transport-numbers (die Überführungszahlen) for the kation Cu and the anion SO4, respectively.
1978 P. W. Atkins Physical Chem. xxv. 843 The following are brief summaries of the three methods used to measure transport numbers of ions and, through them, individual ion conductivities and mobilities.
transport plane n. Military an aircraft used for transporting troops, supplies, etc.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > transporting troops or military supplies
troop-carrier1923
transport plane1945
paratrooper1946
1945 R. J. Oakes in Coast to Coast 1944 99 He had six wounded men to load into the transport plane.
1977 M. Sokolinsky tr. R. Merle Virility Factor xv. 307 The jeep..led us straight into the maw of a transport plane that swallowed the truck.
transport-rider n. South Africa a goods carrier.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > conveyor of goods by vehicle
carriera1395
common carrier1465
loader1476
conductora1533
procaccio1648
shipper1840
transport-rider1850
freighter1872
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ii. 39 The Dutchman along their road being very unfriendly and inhospitable to the English transport-riders.
1909 R. Cullum Compact xii. 143 Each waggon has two coloured transport-riders.
transport-riding n. carriage of goods.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun]
loadc1000
freight1463
carriage?1523
running1825
haulage1826
long haul1839
freighting1856
freightage1872
transport-riding1900
1900 H. R. Haggard Black Heart i Transport-riding—that is, in carrying goods on ox waggons from Durban or Maritzburg to various points in the interior.
transport-ship n. see 4.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores
flute1666
transport1694
transport-ship1694
transport-vessel1700
troop-boat1816
lobster-smack1829
lobster-box1833
troop-ship1861
troop-steamer1862
trooper1872
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > vessel transporting convicts
transport-ship1694
1694 Act 5 & 6 Will. & Mary c. 23 §3 The Transport Shipps for the Warr of Ireland.
1701 London Gaz. No. 3712/3 Several Transport Ships are arrived at Williamstad with Recruits.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 23 Coming to the common Period of that kind of Life, I mean to the Transport Ship, or the Gallows.
transport-vessel n. see 4.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores
flute1666
transport1694
transport-ship1694
transport-vessel1700
troop-boat1816
lobster-smack1829
lobster-box1833
troop-ship1861
troop-steamer1862
trooper1872
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 795 Fourscore Cogs, a sort of small Transport-Vessels.
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transportv.
/trɑːnˈspɔːt/, /tranˈspɔːt/, U.S. /træn(t)sˈpɔrt/ 1. † c. To transfer or convey (property). Obsolete.† d. intransitive for reflexive. To transfer oneself to another place of abode; to emigrate. Obsolete.† e. To remove from this world to the next: cf. translate v. 10. Obsolete.In quot. a1616, a euphemism for ‘put to death, kill’. So taken by Schmidt in quot. 1600; but W. Aldis Wright takes it as, in Starveling's language, = ‘transform, transfigure’, comparing the use of ‘translate’ in iii. i. 122.
a. transitive. To carry, convey, or remove from one place or person to another; to convey across.Formerly used in general sense: see quots.; now mostly restricted to the conveyance of persons, animals, and things as an organized operation, or with allusion to other senses.
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society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)]
haveeOE
ferryOE
weighOE
bearOE
take?a1160
weve13..
carry1348
passa1350
tow1391
geta1393
convey1393
winc1400
transport1483
set1487
convoy1500
traduce1535
port1566
repair1612
vehiculate1628
transmute1683
transplant1769
gallant1806
transit1859
inveigh1878
waltz1884
sashay1928
conduct-
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport
fangOE
flitc1175
convey1393
wainc1400
transport1483
traduce1535
port1566
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 260 b/1 Where it shalle plese the to enhabyte it transporte me to the.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 39 They were separed & transported in-to dyuerse places.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxii. f. cxliiv Dyuers Bysshoppes sees were transported from one place to another, as Selwey to Chechester..And ye See of Lychefeld, to Chester.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxv If the Duke of Britayne, would transporte hym into England.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxiiij That he should neither make a brydge nor finde a foorde to transport his armie.
1579 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 430 To tranchporte any manner tymber.
1606 in Cal. State Papers Ireland 551 To demise to the said Grames and such other persons as shall be transported..120 quarters of land.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. 0. 35 The Scene Is now transported (Gentles) to Southampton. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 457 He made fast the doore, and transported the keyes.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vii. §3. 330 As a well polished Mirrour transporteth the light of the fire, or the sunne, against a wall.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 3. ⁋6 Mules to transport his Provisions and Ammunition.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. ii. 32 I have no wings to transport me from cliff to cliff.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. ii. 65 This region..receiving the merchandize of East and North, and transporting it by its rivers.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vi. 75 The dogs are indispensable in..transporting us to Anoatoh.
1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 222 The Transvaal war has shown the transportability..of the heaviest artillery... The Boers transported their ‘Long Tom’ as they might have transported a piano.
b. figurative (apparently the earliest use).
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > specific something immaterial
transportc1374
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. pr. ix. 65 The errour and folye of mankynde departeth and deuydeth it,..and transporteth from verray and parfyt good to goodes þat ben false and vnparfyt.
c1475 Partenay 3739 And in to sorow transport our gladnesse.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxi. 150 Consyder well that your lusty courage Age of his cours must at the last transporte.
1652 G. Collier Vindiciæ Thesium de Sabbato (1656) 45 The Apostolick churches transported the exercises of that day to the Sunday.
1798 J. Ferriar Eng. Historians 234 They transport our imagination to the scene.
1857 W. Smith Confession Faith ii, in Thorndale 547 Man transports himself into nature—endues the great objects or powers of nature with human feeling, human will.
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society > law > transfer of property > transfer [verb (transitive)]
assign1297
bequeathc1305
alienc1400
analy1405
releasea1425
alienate?a1475
to make over1478
convey1495
transport1523
to put over1542
dispone?1548
design1573
pass1587
to set over1594
transfer1598
abalienate1646
attorn1649
demise1670
enure1736
to will away1773
divest1790
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 257 All the right that oure sayde brother hath.., he yeldeth and transporteth them to vs perpetually.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 259 They [are] to transport, cesse, and leaue eche kyng to other perpetuelly, al the right that they ought to haue in all these sayd thynges.
1607 E. India Co. Court Bk. II. 44 (MS.) Sir James Deane's letter to the Company that his stock of the 3rd voyage, being £200, be transported over to the accompt of Andrew Holdip his kinsman.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 24 Transporting Lands to themselves and their Friends, distributing Offices and Places of the Crown and State.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > emigration > emigrate [verb (intransitive)]
transport?c1550
transplant1608
swarm1610
emigrate1782
out-migrate1953
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 143 Six months after that he had transported into Flanders.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 794 He required him (before he transported) to returne.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. x. 190 It shall bee lawfull for any of the Inhabitants..to transport, without any molestation.
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince viii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 210 The rest he transported into Affrick.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 4 Hee cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported. View more context for this quotation]
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 65 A creature vnpre-par'd, vnmeet for death, And to transport him in the minde he is, Were damnable. View more context for this quotation
2. spec.
a. Scottish Church. To translate (a minister) from one charge to another.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > induct [verb (transitive)] > move from one charge to another
transport1637
1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 164 There wes an intention to have had four of the ministers of Edinburgh transported to other places.
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 257 Discharging them to be transported without the consent of the General Assembly, or declared transportable without consent of the people.
a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) 111 By transported we mean, in Scotland, removed to another parish.
1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1870) v. 118 A Seceding minister at Kircaldy. But I hear he expects to be transported soon.
1904 R. Small Hist. Congregations United Presbyterian Church I. 457 It was carried [in] 1830 by a great majority to transport.
b. Scottish Ecclesiastical Law. To remove (the site of the church) to a different part of the parish.
ΚΠ
1707 Sc. Act Anne c. 10 (1824) XI. 433/1 The transporting of Kirks,..or erecting and building of new kirks, being alwayes with the consent of the heritors of three parts..at least of the valuation of the parock whereof the kirk is craved to be transported or..new kirks to be erected and built.
1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. i. v. §21 With more ample powers, of..transporting churches already built to more convenient places.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) Transportation of Churches, The form of applying for transportation is by a summons raised before the Teind Court, concluding for authority to transport, and to have the new church declared the regular parish church.
c. To carry away or convey into banishment, as a criminal or a slave; to deport.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > exile [verb (transitive)]
flemeOE
forbana1250
exilec1330
forbanishc1450
banish1485
expel1490
exulate1535
vanquishc1540
relegate1561
extirpate1566
exul1568
seclude1572
confine1577
bandon1592
dispossess1600
vent1609
expose1632
deporta1641
disterr1645
transport1666
releage1691
expatriate1817
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > transport
transport1666
marinate1673
lag1819
1666 Act 18 & 19 Chas. II c. 3 §2 It shall be lawfull to and for the Justices..to transport or cause to be transported the said Offenders..into any of his Majestyes Dominions in America.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 8 Sept. (1974) VIII. 428 A prisoner's being condemned at Salsbury for a small matter... They were considering to transport him to save his life.
1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. 60 The rest were sold for slaves and transported to Barbadoes.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 177 It was provided that the offender should not be transported to New England.
3. figurative. To ‘carry away’ with the strength of some emotion; to cause to be beside oneself, to put into an ecstasy, to enrapture.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > cause emotion to be violent [verb (transitive)] > affect with violent emotion
transport1509
reave1556
import1652
enfrenzya1656
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxv. 179 But loke hye his hart to transport.
1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes iii Transported with celestiall desyre Of those faire formes.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. xxi. 69 They stood transported with amazement.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 81 Onely begotten Son, seest thou what rage Transports our adversarie. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 453. ¶8 Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 352 Transported with the thought that rescue had at length arrived, Emma and Dolly shrieked aloud for help.
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- to take off the books
- to take off the table
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- to take on a life of its own
- to take on a person
- to take on and off
- to tell a person her own
- to tell a person his fortune
- to tell a person his own
- to tell a person howdy
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- to tell a person so
- to tell a person what to do with
- to tell a person what to do with something
- to tell a person where to go
- to tell a person where to put
- to tell a person where to put something
- to tell a story
- to tell a thing or two
- to tell all
- to tell apart