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 →

2) A transporter is any person or thing that carries something from place to place. tree →

3) In science fiction, a transporter is an imaginary machine that sends people instantly from one place to another. tree →

4) (biology) A transporter is a tiny part of a cell wall that carries substances in or out of the cell. tree →

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 →
• The army used a transporter to move the heavy tank. tree →
• In the film, the captain stepped into the transporter and vanished. tree →
• Bees are transporters of pollen from flower to flower. tree →
• The transporter bridge carries cars across the river on a hanging platform. tree →
• Cells have transporters that let sugar in. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «transporter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.