transportとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) +‎ port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).

発音

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, tränspôrtʹ, IPA: /tɹænsˈpɔːt/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, IPA: /tɹænsˈpɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /tɹænsˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /tɹænsˈpoət/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• ハイフネーション: trans‧port

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, tränsʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹæns.pɔːt/, /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹæns.pɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈtɹæns.po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈtɹæns.poət/
• 韻: -ænspɔː(ɹ)t
• ハイフネーション: trans‧port

動詞

transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

   to transport goods; to transport troops

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:

     But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.

2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

   Music transports the soul.

   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

     Thes. Pray you kneele not,
     I was transported with your Speech, and suffer'd
     Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes
     Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting
     As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for 'em.
     

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.

Conjugation

同意語

• (carry or bear from one place to another): convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship
• (historical: deport to a penal colony): banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite
• (move someone to strong emotion): carry away, enrapture

名詞

transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)

1. An act of transporting; conveyance.

   The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.

2. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
   • 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53:

     In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.

3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
4. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
5. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

   The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.

6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
7. (historical) A deported convict.

同意語

• (act of transporting): conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping
• (state of being transported by emotion): rapture
• ((military) vehicle used to transport troops):
• (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight):
• (system of transporting people): See public transport
• (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder):
• (historical: deported convict): deportee, exile, expatriate

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