transport

The ways or systems used to move people and goods, such as buses, trains, and roads.

• Public transport is cheap here.
• The city needs a better transport system.
• What means of transport do you use?

Similar words: transportation

Common phrases: public transport, means of transport, transport system

The act of taking people or goods from one place to another.

• The price includes transport.
• We arranged the transport of the furniture.
• Safe transport of these animals is essential.

How to use it: transport of someone/something (The transport of injured people requires special care.)

Similar words: transportation, conveyance

Common phrases: transport of goods, transport by rail, safe transport

A vehicle, ship, or aircraft used to carry people or goods.

• The transport carried fifty soldiers.
• Two military transports landed at the airfield.
• They boarded a transport bound for the island.

Similar words: carrier

Common phrases: military transport, troop transport, cargo transport

To carry people or things from one place to another, usually in a vehicle.

• The vans transport food.
• They transported the patient to hospital.
• How will you transport all this equipment?

How to use it: transport someone/something from A to B (Trucks transport food from farms to markets.); transport someone/something by something (The equipment was transported by train.)

Similar words: carry, move, convey

Common phrases: transport goods, transport passengers, transport by road

To fill someone with a very strong feeling, especially joy.

• The music transported him with joy.
• Her singing transported the audience into a state of delight.
• He was transported by the beauty of the final song.

How to use it: transport someone with something (The beautiful music transported her with delight.)

Similar words: enrapture, entrance

Common phrases: transport with joy, transport with delight, transport the soul