transport-n; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: act of moving or conveying something

Commentary: TRANSPORT[+event][+action][+movement][+transferral][+delivery] Refers to the act of moving something from one place to another.
NOTE: nominalization; the transfer of X{+patient} by Y{agent}

Examples:
The transport of goods between our cities has gone uninterrupted for centuries.
His transport to the hospital via helicopter cost several thousand dollars.
The membrane wall allows active transport of chemical substances into the cell nucleus.
The treaty guarantees free and unhindered transport of crude oil from the region.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: vehicle, apparatus or instrument of conveyance

Commentary: TRANSPORT[+entity][+artifact][+conveyance][+vehicle] Something that serves as a means of transportation.
NOTE: refers to an object that carries something from one place to another.

Examples:
The Americans built a fleet of transports to move their marines and tanks across the ocean.
The Concorde was a supersonic transport.
The rebels attacked a column of transport trucks.
Her usual transport to the campus was an old red bicycle.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 3: State of happiness

Commentary: TRANSPORT[+state][+emotional][+happiness][+extreme] An old-fashioned way of describing an overwhelming positive emotion.

Examples:
Listening to the music put young Oliver into transports of joy.
The magician's tricks sent the children into transports of delight.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 4: Tape player part

Commentary: TRANSPORT[+entity][+artifact][+drive][+tape][+magnetic] A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder.

Examples:
John snapped the transport and disabled the whole tape player!
The transport feeds the magnetic tape through the read/write head.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 5: a system, method or enterprise that provides conveyance

Commentary: TRANSPORT[+system][+technology][+transportation]
NOTE: refers to the system at large, not a particular vehicle (Sense 2) or act of transport (Sense 1)

Examples:
London has undergone renovations on its underground transport system.
John worked in the transport industry after graduating with a Linguistics degree
You'll need your own means of transport to get to this job. (some method, system)

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 6: convicts in transit

Commentary: TRANSPORT[+entity][+person][+convict][+transiting]
NOTE: refers to a person who is a prisoner, convict

Examples:
These transports are being shipped to a maximum security prison outside Tulsa.
A convict escaped while being a transport en route to a federal prison.

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WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 4