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A crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
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transporter
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In theory, scientists could develop drugs that bind to the dopamine transporter , which would lock the door to cocaine. ▪ Once he nicked my entire Corgi transporter filled with cars and a train set. ▪ Sooner or later water must ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long truck for carrying motor vehicles [syn: car transporter ] a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) [syn: conveyer belt , conveyor belt , conveyer , conveyor ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called dematerialization ), then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter ( rematerialization ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transporter \Trans*port"er\, n. One who transports.
Usage examples of transporter.
The Mandant stood in the crowded chamber, watching humans come and go via transporter.
Wriede, have Lieutenant Peart assemble a boarding party in transporter room one.
Kirk held his breath, waiting for his guess to be wrong, waiting for solid rock to resolidify around him forever as soon as the transporter beam ended.
Though its intensity is slackening, the present level of sunspot activity prevents our use of the particle transporter.
Having a force of nature working against you-in this case the lethal sunspot interference in the transporter beam-was infinitely worse than twenty-twenty hindsight.
Lieutenant Barclay is checking the modifications to the diagnostic biofilter, and he believes the transporter will be ready for you within the next couple hours.
However, the biofilter will be inoperational, and targeting scanners may not be capable of creating a transporter lock.
True to her word, Wilder, wherever she had been, had accessed the biofilter data from the transporter and reviewed it.
He would just have to count on the biofilters in the transporters to do their job.
Then came the inch-by-inch demagnetization of the transporter, with Kathryn and the other cadets scanning the pads on their knees.
The Elysian transporter effect pulsed around Data, and in a moment he was standing, off balance, on one of the tilted rocks littering the beach below the mountain.
He would put an access denial code on it, of course, but- The Elysian transporter effect began to pulse around Data.
I distinctly recall noting its ethnocentricity in naming the transporter for the human god Janus rather than the Vulcan goddess Yelanna.
Against the opposite wall were more of the same growing-from-the-floor consoles with footwells in front of them that the away team had attempted to examine in the main transporter room.
With that, everyone took their positions and the transporter chief sent them to the Iconian vessel.