transport
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 →
2) verb: To transport means to move people or goods from one place to another. tree →
3) verb: To be transported can mean to feel taken to another place or time by a story or music. tree →
4) (science) Transport is how a body or plant moves things, like blood carrying oxygen. tree →
5) A transport can also be a great rush of strong feeling, such as joy. tree →
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 →
- Lorries transport food to the shops. tree →
- What kind of transport do you use to get to school? tree →
- Blood transports oxygen around the body. tree →
- The story transported me to a magical land. tree →
- Ships transport goods across the ocean. tree →
- And she flung herself into her friend's arms in a transport of delight. tree →
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.
- Each new kind of transport solved a problem of the one before.
- Boats are among the oldest kinds of transport.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «transport» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.