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# transporter

«transporter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large vehicle that carries other vehicles or heavy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a transporter, transporters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A transporter is a large vehicle that carries other vehicles or heavy loads, like a car transporter lorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#m1)

2) A transporter is any person or thing that carries something from place to place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#m2)

3) In science fiction, a transporter is an imaginary machine that sends people instantly from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#m3)

4) (biology) A transporter is a tiny part of a cell wall that carries substances in or out of the cell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: car transporters on motorways, tank transporters in the army. In science fiction stories like Star Trek: «beam me up» with a transporter. In science, transporter proteins move things across cell membranes. Phrases: «car transporter», «a transporter bridge».

### examples

- A car transporter carried eight new cars down the motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#x1)
- The army used a transporter to move the heavy tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#x2)
- In the film, the captain stepped into the transporter and vanished. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#x3)
- Bees are transporters of pollen from flower to flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#x4)
- The transporter bridge carries cars across the river on a hanging platform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#x5)
- Cells have transporters that let sugar in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transporter/#x6)

### note

Countable: «a transporter», «transporters». Comes from «transport» + «-er» (a person or thing that does). A real-life instant transporter does not exist; it is only in stories.

### In the corpora

- [New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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