[trans.port] vt [ME, fr. MF or L; MF transporter, fr. L transportare, fr. trans- + portare to carry--more at fare] (14c) 1: to transfer or convey from one place to another "~ing ions across a living membrane"
2: to carry away with strong and often intensely pleasant emotion
3: to send to a penal colony overseas syn see banish -- trans.port.abil.i.ty n -- trans.port.able adj
[2]trans.port n (1611) 1: an act or process of transporting: transportation
2: strong or intensely pleasurable emotion "~s of joy" 3 a: a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment b: a vehicle (as a truck or airplane) used to transport persons or goods c: transportation 3
4: a transported convict
5: a mechanism for moving magnetic tape past a recording head syn see ecstasy