transport
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈtrænspɔrt/
- Archaic
:
arrebato
- Toby closes his eyes, also as if in sexual transport.
Examples
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Wex was in a transport of excitement.
Fiction book (1993) -
In its clarity and embrace, in its articulation of making and maker, in its unmuddled transport of mind into language, Correspondence is a vital, wholly original work of art.
Academic text (2007) -
I am just in transport.
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"There is nothing phony or hypocritical about these transports of Harry's.
Fiction book (2000) -
Want to get away from it all? " To meet a specter in some archaic territory caused an excited delirium resembling religious transport.
Academic text (2015) -
Why not call this statement, paradoxically both outmoded and utopian, a projection, a dreamy and poetic transport toward the future?
Academic text (2004) -
The effect of David is inexplicable to Romy; it is not the way she felt in the piazza, which she would classify as the usual emotional transport one feels when finally face-to-face with an admired work of art.
Fiction book (1997) -
As you can well imagine, I was in transport of emotion.
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Wex was in a transport of excitement.
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My transport of joy was unmistakable when I received the good news.
Synonyms
57
6.1
A feeling of very great joy and excitement
37
6.9
A very strong feeling of great joy
2
7.6
A feeling of great happiness and strong emotion
A strong feeling of joy or wonder that takes over someone
Compounds
39
1.4
Services like buses or trains that anyone can use in a city, usually for a small fee
- Specialized
A document that makes one company responsible for goods moved by two or more kinds of transport
- Specialized
To move a substance across a cell membrane from low to high concentration using energy
- Specialized
Movement of substances like oxygen across a cell membrane without using the cell's energy
- Archaic
Part inside a tape player that moves the tape so sound is played or recorded
How Joyful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transport meaning a state of great joy comes from the same roots trans- + portare, 'across' and 'to carry', and was used as a picture of being 'carried away' by feeling. That is why a 'transport' of delight means being emotionally carried away.