Search: Dictionary All Posts
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
transport Definition
Cancel
transport
verb(trans-port)to transfer or convey from one place to another
transport
verb(trans-port)to carry away with strong and often intensely pleasant emotion
transport
verb(trans-port)to send to a penal colony overseas
transport
noun(trans-port)an act or process of transporting : transportation
transport
noun(trans-port)a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment
transport
noun(trans-port)a vehicle (such as a truck or airplane) used to transport persons or goods
transport
noun(trans-port)a roadside restaurant frequented chiefly by truck drivers
transport
noun(trans-port)the movement of a chemical substance by the expenditure of energy against a gradient in concentration or in electrical potential across a plasma membrane
transport
noun(trans-port)the sequential transfer of electrons especially by cytochromes in cellular respiration from an oxidizable substrate to molecular oxygen by a series of oxidation-reduction reactions
transport
noun(trans-port)the movement of substances (as by diffusion) across a cell membrane without the expenditure of energy
transport
noun(trans-port)a supersonic transport airplane
transport
noun(trans-port)the coupled transport of chemical substances across a cell membrane in which the energy required to move a substance (such as glucose) against a gradient in concentration or in electrical potential is provided by the movement of another substance (such as a sodium ion) along its gradient in concentration or in electric potential
transport
noun(trans-port)a communications protocol governing the exchange of data (such as HTML files) especially on the World Wide Web —called also hypertext transport protocol
transport
noun(trans-port)mass transit