Transporting

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transport \Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L.
     transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port}
     bearing, demeanor.]
     1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to
        convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.


        --Hakluyt.
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     2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a
        criminal; to banish.
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     3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
        complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
        ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
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              [They] laugh as if transported with some fit
              Of passion.                           --Milton.
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              We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
              wonder.                               --South.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transporting \Trans*port"ing\, a.
     That transports; fig., ravishing.
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           Your transporting chords ring out.       --Keble.
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