Trans*port" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [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.

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.

Trans"port (?), n. [F. See Transport, v.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.

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.

Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Trans*port" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [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.

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.

Trans"port (?), n. [F. See Transport, v.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.

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.

Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

• To change the location or place of.
  
• To deport to a penal colony.
  
• To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  
• The act of transporting; conveyance.
  
• The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  
• A ship or aircraft used to transport troops.
  
• A vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight.
  
• The system of transporting passengers etc in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  
• A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  
• A deported convict.