transportv. t.[F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.(Hakluyt.)2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.()3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.()[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion. (Milton.)We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. (South.)n.[F. See Transport, v.]1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.()The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. (Arbuthnot.)2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.()3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.()With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne. (Pope.)Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled. (Doddridge.)4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.()