transport

Noun
  1. Something that serves as a means of transportation (synset 103105141)
    is a type of: instrumentality, instrumentation - an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end
    subtypes:
    • dolly - conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects
    • dolly - conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted
    • horsebox - a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses
    • litter - conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
    • mail - a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
    • public transport - conveyance for passengers or mail or freight
    • roll-on roll-off - a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination
    • cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels, shipping - conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
    • sidecar - conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle
    • lift, ski lift, ski tow - a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
    • telfer, telpher - one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage
    • trailer - a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor
    • aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram, tramway - a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
    • vehicle - a conveyance that transports people or objects
    same as: conveyance
  2. An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes (synset 113591439)
    is a type of: diffusion - (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
    subtypes:
    • active transport - transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires an expenditure of energy
    • passive transport - transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
  3. The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials (synset 101107164)
    associated with:
    • on-line, online - on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
    • off-line - not on a regular route of a transportation system
    is a type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
    subtypes:
    is a part of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
    same as: shipping, transportation
  4. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion (synset 114009857)
    "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"
    is a type of: emotional state, spirit - the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)
    same as: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus
  5. A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder (synset 104399851)
    is a type of: mechanism - device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
    is a part of:
    • tape deck - electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system
    • tape machine, tape recorder - a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape
    same as: tape drive, tape transport
  6. The act of moving something from one location to another (synset 100316812)
    is a type of: movement - the act of changing the location of something
    subtypes:
    • transshipment - the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment
    • airlift, lift - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
    • connection, connexion - shifting from one form of transportation to another
    • bringing, delivery - the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
    • drive - the act of driving a herd of animals overland
    • carry - the act of carrying something
    • lighterage - the transportation of goods on a lighter
    • relocation, resettlement - the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
    • teleportation - a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another
    has: pickup - the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
    same as: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation
Verb
  1. Move something or somebody around;
    Usually over long distances (synset 201957669)
    is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
    subtypes:
    • sluice - transport in or send down a sluice
    • float - set afloat
    • ferry - transport by ferry
    • wheelbarrow - transport in a wheelbarrow
    • raft - transport on a raft
    • bus - send or move around by bus
    • pipe - transport by pipeline
    • freight - transport commercially as cargo
    • truck - convey (goods etc.) by truck
    • rail - convey (goods etc.) by rails
    • sledge - transport in a sleigh
    • lighter - transport in a flatbottom boat
    • pick up - give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
    • wheel, wheel around - wheel somebody or something
    • carry over - transport from one place or state to another
    • advect - convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid
    • teleport - transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another
  2. Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body (synset 201452567)
    "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"
    is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
    subtypes:
    • shoulder - carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
    • port - carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
    • bear - move while holding up or supporting
    • bucket - carry in a bucket
    • return - make a return
    • pipe in - transport to a destination through pipes
    • port - carry, bear, convey, or bring
    • porter - carry luggage or supplies
    • pack - carry, as on one's back
    • cart - transport something in a cart
    • fly - transport by aeroplane
    • haul - transport in a vehicle
    • lug, tote, tug - carry with difficulty
    • drive, motor - travel or be transported in a vehicle
    • chariot - transport in a chariot
    • bring, convey, take - take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
    same as: carry
    verb group:
    • carry - pass on a communication
    • carry - propel or give impetus to
  3. Hold spellbound (synset 201821281)
    is a type of: delight, please - give pleasure to or be pleasing to
    same as: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish
  4. Transport commercially (synset 201954657)
    is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
    subtypes:
    same as: send, ship
  5. Send from one person or place to another (synset 201438013)
    "transmit a message"
    is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
    subtypes:
    • bring, convey, fetch, get - go or come after and bring or take back
    • project - transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
    • propagate - transmit
    • translate - bring to a certain spiritual state
    • release, turn - let (something) fall or spill from a container
    • send, send out - to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
    same as: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit

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