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# transport

«transport» in Mova's school dictionary: **a way of moving people or goods from one place to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (transport — uncountable; US transportation); verb (transport, transports, transported, transporting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) noun: Transport is a way of moving people or goods from one place to another, such as cars, buses, trains, planes and ships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#m1)

2) verb: To transport means to move people or goods from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#m2)

3) verb: To be transported can mean to feel taken to another place or time by a story or music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#m3)

4) (science) Transport is how a body or plant moves things, like blood carrying oxygen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#m4)

5) A transport can also be a great rush of strong feeling, such as joy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and maths: public transport, timetables, journeys, speed and cost problems. In science: the heart and blood transport oxygen; roots and stems transport water. Phrases: public transport, means of transport, transport goods, transported by.

### examples

- Buses and trains are public transport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x1)
- Lorries transport food to the shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x2)
- What kind of transport do you use to get to school? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x3)
- Blood transports oxygen around the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x4)
- The story transported me to a magical land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x5)
- Ships transport goods across the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x6)
- And she flung herself into her friend's arms in a transport of delight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/#x7)

### note

Noun stressed TRANS-port; verb stressed trans-PORT. In US English the noun is usually "transportation". Uncountable noun: say "a means of transport", not "a transport". In maths: if a bus carries 50 people, 3 buses transport 150.

### In the corpora

- [Most old cities grew beside rivers, lakes or seas, which gave water, fish and cheap transport for goods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/5/)
- [Each new kind of transport solved a problem of the one before.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/3/)
- [Boats are among the oldest kinds of transport.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transport» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transport/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.