transporting

4 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to take goods or people from one place to another:

transport something across something to something The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast.

transport something (by something) Such heavy items are expensive to transport (by plane).

(in the past) to send a criminal to live in a country far away as a punishment:

be transported to 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia from 1788 to 1868.

If something transports you to a different time or place, it makes you feel as if you were in it:

transport someone back to something The film transports you back to the New York of the 1950s.