transportern.
/trɑːnˈspɔːtə/, /tranˈspɔːtə/, U.S. /træn(t)sˈpɔrdər/ 1. One who transports.
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society > travel > transport > [noun] > one who transports or conveys
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conveyancer1791
the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > one who or that which
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1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 14 §1 The said..Tanners or other person transporter of the same Lether.
1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 12 §4 No..Carrier, Buyer or Transporter of Corne.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 209 A thing usuall it is betweene Tripoly and Aleppo..to make tame Doues the speedy transporters of their letters.
1744 J. Paterson Compl. Comm. Paradise Lost 305 The transporter of departed souls into hell.
1906 Times 21 Aug. 5/1 The result of the increased number of transporters is that the price of everything has fallen.
2. Any carrying apparatus; esp. a device for transporting coal from a quay or from one vessel to another. Also, a vehicle used to transport other vehicles or large pieces of machinery, etc., by road. transporter-bridge, a bridge over a navigable waterway, high enough not to interfere with navigation, carrying a suspended platform or car which travels from bank to bank and conveys the traffic. So transporter car.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > carrying apparatus
transporter1893
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > bridge of other specific construction
pile bridge1758
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lock bridge1817
lattice-bridge1838
tubular bridge1850
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trestle-bridge1867
deck-bridge1874
transporter-bridge1893
gullet-bridge1896
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Bailey bridge1944
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > transporter
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1893 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 5/2 Mr. Temperley's ingenious contrivance for coaling rapidly... The ‘transporter’, as it is called, is made of steel, beam-shaped,..and fitted with an automatic travelling carriage suspended from the lower flange of the beam.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 31 July 7/1 The ‘B’ Fleet has now been coaled with exceptional rapidity and without recourse to the Temperly transporter.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 10/2 The Runcorn Transporter Bridge, now being erected, has its towers made wholly of steel. They rise 190 ft. above high-water level.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 10/2 The transporter car..is suspended from the trolly by steel-wire ropes.
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) xi. 68 The tanks were to move by transporter.
1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xxi. 206 In the Sahara there were only Peugeots, and Landrovers, and the smart little cars that came in by transporter.
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Science Fiction. A device for conveying people or things instantaneously from one place to another, esp. a machine which converts matter into energy, individual atoms, information, etc., and transmits it in this form to another location where it is reconstituted; a teleporter. Also attributive.Frequently with reference to the U.S. television series Star Trek.
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1940 M. Duclos in Fantastic Adventures June 81/2 I'm aiming my atom transporter at Earth. I'm going to try to pick something on Earth, break it into its primordial atoms, whisk them up here to Mars and then assemble them to their former shape in the converter down on the laboratory floor.
1957 G. R. Dickson in Future Sci. Fiction Sept. 29/2 Hey..is this the gimmick that does the transporting?.. It makes sense... This is the transporter, or whatever it was. And it's been damaged.
1964 G. Roddenberry Cage (TV story outline) in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) i. iv. 48 The transporter..beams them to materialize on the planet surface far below.
1981 V. N. McIntyre Entropy Effect v. 130 Well..one could beam from one place, to the transporter room, then to another place.
2007 M. Hamid Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008) i. 14 Instantaneous travel. You step into its terminal in New York, and you immediately reappear in its terminal in London. Like a transporter on Star Trek.
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