transporttrans‧port2 /trænˈspɔːt $ -ɔːrt/ ●●○ AWL verb [transitive usually + adverb/preposition] 
trucks used for transporting oiltransport somebody/something to something The statue was transported to London.► see thesaurus at take2be transported back to/into something to imagine that you are in another place or time because of something that you see or hear: One look, and I was transported back to childhood.3be transported with delight/joy etc literary to feel very strong emotions of pleasure, happiness etc4to send a criminal to a distant country such as Australia as a punishment in the past—transportable adjective
WORD ORIGINtransport2
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French transporter, from Latin, from portare ‘to carry’VERB TABLE
transport
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | transport |
| he, she, it | transports | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | transported |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have transported |
| he, she, it | has transported | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had transported |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will transport |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have transported |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am transporting |
| he, she, it | is transporting | |
| you, we, they | are transporting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was transporting |
| you, we, they | were transporting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been transporting |
| he, she, it | has been transporting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been transporting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be transporting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been transporting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Raw materials were transported to Phoenix from the reservations.
- The company transports meat across the country in refrigerated containers.
- The incident raised concerns about the safety and security of nuclear weapons being transported through Europe.
- The plane is used for transporting military personnel.
- Also, while being transported by wind, it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition.
- An ambulance service volunteered its equipment to transport a severely crippled man home for weekends.
- He wants to sit next to her while facing a big screen and being transported by big-budget suspense or mayhem.
- It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon.
- Radiation is released during the handling and treatment of radioactive materials and as they are transported to and from nuclear sites.
- The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors, up steep, dark steps!
- To become a reality, electronic commerce needs a network infrastructure to transport the content.
THESAURUS
to move or go with someone or something from one place to another: · Don’t forget to take your keys.· Shall I take you home?· I took Alice a cup of tea.
to take someone or something to the place where you are now: · We’ve brought someone to see you!· Will you bring your photos with you when you come?
to take large quantities of goods from one place to another in a plane, train, ship etc: · The plane is used for transporting military equipment.· The coal was transported by rail.
to take goods, letters, newspapers etc to someone’s home or office: · Unfortunately, the package was delivered to the wrong address.
to take someone or something somewhere by plane: · The bread is specially flown in from Paris.
to take goods from one place to another – this can be by ship, truck, plane, or train: · Half the whisky is shipped to Japan and the US.
to take people or goods somewhere – used especially when saying how many people or things, or what kind: · The new plane can carry up to 600 passengers.· The ship was carrying a full cargo of oil.
to take someone to a place by going in front of them: · He led Julia through the house to his study.· Roland led the way back to the car in silence.
to take someone to a place and show them the way: · Emily guided him through a side gate into a large garden.
to take someone to a place and protect or guard them: · The prisoner was escorted into the room by two police officers.· The singer was escorted by her assistant and her bodyguard.
to politely lead someone somewhere and show them where to go, especially because it is your job to do this: · We were ushered into the lift by a man in uniform.
Longman Language Activatorto take someone or something from one place to another to have someone or something with you when you go to another place: · Don't forget to take your keys.· I've started taking a packed lunch to work to save money.take somebody/something to/out/into/home etc: · "Where's Dan?" "He's taken the car to the garage."· I can't stop, I've got to take the kids to school.· She was taken straight into the emergency room when we arrived.· Would you like me to take you home?· Are we allowed to take library books home with us?take somebody something: · I took Alice a cup of tea.take somebody/something with you: · Did he take the camera with him?· Take the dogs with you if you're going for a walk.
if someone brings a person or thing to the place where you are, they have that person or thing with them when they come: · I brought my Nikes - they're about the only decent shoes I have.· We've brought someone to see you!bring somebody to/into/out/home etc: · Everyone's bringing a bit of food and a bottle to the party.· When are you going to bring him in for his injections?· The only time we use the VCR is when they bring Joey to our house.· I brought some work home and tried to get it finished in the evening.bring somebody something: · Robert asked the waiter to bring him the check.bring somebody/something with you: · I hope he hasn't brought his brother with him.· Is it okay if I bring some clothes with me to wash?
to move large quantities of goods or large numbers of people from one place to another, especially over a large distance: · The plane is used for transporting military personnel.transport somebody/something to/from/across etc: · The company transports meat across the country in refrigerated containers.· Raw materials were transported to Phoenix from the reservations. · The incident raised concerns about the safety and security of nuclear weapons being transported through Europe.
to take letters, newspapers, goods etc to someone's home or office: · Your computer will be delivered between 9.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m.· How soon can you deliver?deliver something to somebody/something: · If your order is ready, it will be delivered to you tomorrow. · Unfortunately the package was delivered to the wrong address.
to take someone to a place and make sure they cannot escape or that they arrive there safely: escort somebody to/into/out etc: · The prisoner was escorted into the room by two police officers.· The guards escorted them to a waiting helicopter.· After he was sacked, he was escorted discreetly from the building by two senior managers.
if the police, guards, or people who are looking after someone whisk someone away they take them away from a place very quickly, especially in a car: · He refused to talk to reporters and was whisked away by the authorities to an undisclosed location. · Two police officers stood outside, waiting to whisk her away as soon as she came out.
to take someone from one place to another in a car or other road vehicle: drive somebody to/from/home etc: · The terrorists forced Mr Grey to drive them to the airport.· Tyson declined to give any comment to reporters and was driven away by a friend.· She didn't really want to drive herself to the doctor, so I said I'd take her.· Wayne usually drives Patti home from class because they live quite close to each other.
to take people or goods from one place to another by plane: fly somebody/something to/from/back etc: · His company flew him to Rio to attend the conference.· I'm not allowed to fly visitors into the National Park area without permission.· Medical equipment and food are being flown into the areas worst hit by the disaster.
to take goods a long distance to another place in a ship , plane, truck or train, so that they can be used or sold: ship something to/from/back etc: · About half of the whisky produced in Scotland is shipped to Japan and the US.· I'm a manufacturer, and I ship electronic goods across the Mexican border, so the new levies will definitely affect my business.
if a ship, plane, train, or road vehicle carries people or goods, it takes them from one place to another: · Air India carried 1.66 million passengers last year.· The Jeep was carrying six men from the artillery brigade. Only one survived.carry somebody/something to/from/across etc: · The ship was carrying a cargo of oil from Kuwait to Japan.· The train was carrying passengers from Moscow to St Petersburg.
WORD SETSalarmed, adjectiveallegation, nounamnesty, nounbail, nounbreath test, nouncharge sheet, nouncircumstantial, adjectivecompensation, nouncompensatory, adjectivecomplicity, nouncondemned, adjectivecondemned cell, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconman, nouncontraband, nouncuff, verbdebug, verbdetain, verbdick, nounenforce, verbfed, nounFederal Bureau of Investigation, nounflogging, nounforensic, adjectivegallows, noungaolbird, noungas chamber, noungibbet, nounguillotine, nounhang, verbhanging, nounhard labour, nounimpeach, verbKC, nounlaunder, verblawsuit, nounleg irons, nounlicensed, adjectivelicensing laws, nounlife, nounlife sentence, nounline-up, nounlynch, verblynch mob, nounpenalty point, nounpenology, nounpolygraph, nounposse, nounprisoner, nounracket, nounracketeer, nounracketeering, nounrake-off, nounransom, nounransom, verbreport, verbreprieve, nounriot, nounshop, verbsilk, nounspeed trap, nounstalker, nounstrip search, nountransport, verbtransportation, nountribunal, nounundercover, adjectivevictim, nounwrongdoing, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the most efficient mode of transport
British English (=a cheap café beside a main road, mainly for lorry drivers)· Many transport cafés serve great breakfasts.
· They had to pay £30,000 in legal costs.
British English, a means of transportation American English (=a way of travelling, for example using a car, bus, bicycle etc)· The tram is an efficient means of transport.
the most efficient mode of transport (=for carrying military equipment and soldiers)· Heavily-laden transport planes can only land if there is a long runway.
British English, public transportation American English (=buses, trains etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites.· Artix of Peterlee, vehicle to transport goods.· He need not, however, transport the goods but can wait for the trader to come and collect them.
· Blue Circle of Eastgate, vehicles to transport materials.· The procuticle is probably secreted around them and they may also transport material to the outer procuticle and epicuticle.
· Non-local workers were transported by plane and housed in large, specially built camps or in adjacent accommodation ships.
· Until after the 1939-45 war, nearly all the country's milk was transported by rail.
· You know and I know what 100 planes can do to troops, to towns and to transport on roads.· From here the components of the Hercules will be transported by road to the Museum's storage facility.
· Norman ore was to have been smelted there with Ruhr coal, transported cheaply by sea.
· But all that changed when the Cali cartel switched tactics and started relying more on ships and trucks to transport drugs.
· The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water, eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal.· The number of trips that can be expected for a spacecraft that transports water back from an asteroid is difficult to estimate.· Elsewhere, railway lines tapped more effectively crops which had formerly been transported on water, by animals, or by porters.· As the base grows, the cost of transporting the necessary water, oxygen, and food becomes ever more prohibitive.· All three have within their stems strong woody vessels to transport the water absorbed by their roots.
· The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.· As you walk the hallways, with their institutional floors and smudged walls, you can be transported half way around the world.· At the mention of the name Disraeli, Mark had been transported into a world of his own.· It was a magic broom to transport me to another world, from poverty to riches.· He was transporting her to another world, and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon.· Ecstasy is a flight of the mind in which the mystic describes himself as being transported to another world.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be transported with delight/joy etc
- He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition.
- Years later, at a sound, sight or scent, you can be transported back to that place.
WORD FAMILYnountransporttransportationtransporterverbtransport
1to take goods, people etc from one place to another in a vehicle: trucks used for transporting oiltransport somebody/something to something The statue was transported to London.► see thesaurus at take2be transported back to/into something to imagine that you are in another place or time because of something that you see or hear: One look, and I was transported back to childhood.3be transported with delight/joy etc literary to feel very strong emotions of pleasure, happiness etc4to send a criminal to a distant country such as Australia as a punishment in the past—transportable adjective