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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transport
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a means of transportBritish English, a means of transportation American English (= a way of travelling, for example using a car, bus, bicycle etc)
▪ The tram is an efficient means of transport.
a transport caféBritish English (= a cheap café beside a main road, mainly for lorry drivers)
▪ Many transport cafés serve great breakfasts.
a transport plane (=for carrying military equipment and soldiers)
▪ Heavily-laden transport planes can only land if there is a long runway.
labour/production/transport etc costs
▪ They had to pay £30,000 in legal costs.
mode of transport
▪ the most efficient mode of transport
public transportBrE,public transportation American English (= buses, trains etc)
public transport
transport cafe
Transport for London
transport plane
transport ship
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fluid
▪ On day 30, when the nematodes had been expelled from the gut, fluid transport was back to control values.
▪ In three other experiments fluid transport in the jejunum was nil.
▪ An attempt was made to determine if fluid transport varied between days 6 and 9.
▪ No effect on fluid transport was seen.
▪ In this report we investigated fluid transport in rats on days 6-9 or 11-14 after having been injected with the larvae.
▪ These findings agree with results reported by other researchers investigating fluid transport invivo.
▪ This study was designed to investigate further the relationship between inflammation and fluid transport in the small intestine of the rat.
▪ Nolla etal made a more thorough analysis, determining fluid transport on days 4, 6, 9, and 13.
local
▪ Transport For the reasons stated above, local transport is best, although this means being patient.
▪ She says it has made me think why is there no local transport readily available.
▪ Local post offices, local transport and local schools all have an important role to play in sustaining rural life.
▪ They were empowered to improve a range of local facilities from transport, credit, and insurance to health and education.
▪ Although no public transport service precisely covers the above itinerary in that form, local public transport makes the main points accessible.
▪ This was partly due to the weak local transport system and remoteness from urban influences.
▪ Assisting people in rural areas by making concessionary fares on local public transport widely available.
▪ Visitors to an area can help support local accommodation, transport and shops.
military
▪ Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft.
▪ One such system in use on military transport planes costs $ 1. 6 million to install per aircraft.
▪ The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport, which had recently held two cell meetings.
private
▪ Lack of mobility may mean that older people with disabilities have to incur the cost of private transport in order to get about.
▪ Although private transport is also subject to government policy, it will be affected more slowly.
▪ However, the decline of public transport and the far-from-universal availability of private transport militates against this in practice.
▪ The motor car is private transport, available only to its owner and his immediate circle.
▪ This lessens professional isolation and becomes more possible with better roads and private transport.
▪ This close to Christmas, the wild West End was a militarized zone for private transport, even taxis.
public
▪ This form of public transport was first introduced into London by George Shillibeer in 1829.
▪ Investment and commitment are also needed to rebuild a viable public transport system.
▪ Buses and underground trains were so expensive that it was no longer accurate to regard them as public transport.
▪ The public transport safety target would not be achieved if single-pilot public transport operations by pilots over sixty were to be permitted.
▪ A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.
▪ She takes little exercise, does not even walk much, and prefers to use the car or public transport.
▪ A minimal public transport service was in operation.
▪ In addition, public transport is much more subject to direct government policy and to the influence of political decisions.
■ NOUN
air
▪ Shipping, air transport, telephone and telegraph generally follow these routes.
▪ They lay it all on for us, he said. Air transport there and back guaranteed: same day.
▪ Suddenly, it was three years later and he was being carried off an Army Medical Corps Hercules air transport.
▪ For the more serious cases, there was air transport direct to base hospital, possibly hundreds of miles to the rear.
▪ Partly Competitive/Partly Regulated Industries Examples of this kind of industry are oil, aerospace, and air transport.
▪ The burgeoning air transport industry is presenting huge opportunities for enterprise.
aircraft
▪ The operation had not gone without hitches because adequate amphibious shipping and transport aircraft were not yet available.
▪ Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft.
▪ There is an illusion of sitting high above the ground, almost as if it was a transport aircraft.
▪ Ventures have included flying tourists in transport aircraft.
▪ The Hercules transport aircraft is taking food and medicine to the besieged city of Sarajevo.
▪ Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes.
committee
▪ On Monday Darlington council's transport committee will be recommended to join the steering group and appoint a member.
▪ Darlington transport committee heard yesterday Mr Drury has to write frequently to parents asking them not to park near the entrance.
▪ The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat.
▪ Yesterday's transport committee heard that a group is being set up to consider all aspects of rail travel in the North-East.
▪ Yesterday members of Darlington council's transport committee asked officers to think again about solving the problems of speed monitoring.
▪ The borough council's officers' traffic group have visited the site and a report was discussed at Monday's transport committee.
costs
▪ That is due not just to its comparatively high transport costs but to its low density.
▪ Trade will reduce welfare when transport costs are sufficiently close to prohibitive and increase it when they are sufficiently low.
▪ Any exports to the mainland have to bear high transport costs.
▪ In this chapter we approach the effects of transport costs in two ways.
▪ Integrating transport costs into a general equilibrium trade model is a messy affair even with constant returns and perfect competition.
▪ Neither do they take into account the additional disadvantages associated with increasing remoteness, such as transport costs.
▪ But this does not mean that lowering transport costs always raises welfare.
facility
▪ Do you want to be close to work or near transport facilities?
▪ This project was promoted by Lord Egremont who wished to improve the condition of local agriculture by upgrading transport facilities.
▪ It also necessitates major improvements to public transport facilities.
▪ Or they may move because their old location is not well placed for transport facilities.
▪ The provision of freight handling and transport facilities at stations and other locations.
▪ The study aims to see how far problems of these areas are caused by inadequate transport facilities.
industry
▪ In the aerospace and transport industries, scientists and engineers use stoichiometric procedures to calculate fuel needs.
▪ It has already found uses in the transport industry.
▪ Until now, people working in the transport industry have tended to specialise in one aspect of the distribution business.
▪ Nationalization in the transport industries produced neither outstanding industrial relations nor employee commitment.
▪ Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry.
▪ These losses are concentrated mainly in the transport industries, aIthough the numbers employed in personal services have also declined.
▪ The burgeoning air transport industry is presenting huge opportunities for enterprise.
infrastructure
▪ Mr Norris said standards applied in reaching the decision were the same as those used for all other major transport infrastructure projects.
▪ Provisions for cyclists will therefore require both the use of existing transport infrastructure and special facilities for cyclists.
▪ What Britain needs is serious government investment in public transport infrastructure-and lower fares.
▪ Other measures proposed include action to tackle traffic flows, and greater environmental considerations of spending on new transport infrastructure.
▪ That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure.
▪ We support the location of new industrial and commercial developments in areas already well-served by good transport infrastructure and public transport.
▪ Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain's transport infrastructure in our history.
▪ But he also believes that some public money will be needed to develop the transport infrastructure necessary to complement development.
minister
▪ If you were transport minister, what would be your first action?
network
▪ So does the vulnerability of people at work, or moving through the transport networks, or living near large industrial plants.
▪ However, in order for this to be successful, the transport network of the area must be greatly improved.
▪ It formed urban areas, with their large pools of labour, shopping centres and transport networks.
▪ It was noted that private farms faced difficulties both in obtaining equipment and because of poor sales and transport networks.
▪ Almost 250 car parks across the province will be cleaned to help raise awareness of the litter problem in the transport network.
▪ Many have returned this time much earlier than usual, increasing the pressure on the overcrowded transport network.
▪ Mr Hunter's book is unusual in that this is the first volume of the history of a passenger transport network.
passenger
▪ Another is the fares paid on passenger transport.
▪ This research project examines the contrast between policies of integration and competition in the passenger transport industry.
▪ The subsidies mentioned in the table are mainly directed to housing, passenger transport and other economic affairs and services.
▪ Edinburgh's transport Railway histories are innumerable and road passenger transport histories are by no means rare.
▪ Mr Hunter's book is unusual in that this is the first volume of the history of a passenger transport network.
plane
▪ Other aircrew who died in the crash were ... In Lyneham, the transport planes were flying again today.
▪ The Marine Corps has 24 medium lift helicopters and 12 transport planes based at the station.
▪ It was designed to be a troop transport plane.
▪ There they would be loaded board three transport planes and flown to Tabriz.
▪ The camels had already seen two Junkers Tri-Motor transport planes come in, so they were not impressed by a Heinkel 111.
▪ An occasional transport plane came in to Berna airfield at Benghazi.
▪ They're taking in flour, grain and oil on Hercules transport planes.
policy
▪ Is our transport policy a waste of money?
▪ A transport policy which advocates private cars is not a policy which protects the environment.
▪ Most daring of all, he calls his plan a national transport policy.
▪ His initiatives in the field of transport policy have included a number of environmental strands.
▪ A Tory Transport Secretary pledging a national transport policy and oodles of public money for services that don't make money.
▪ Higher taxes on motorists should be only one measure in the context of a wider environment and transport policy.
▪ Has transport policy lost its way?
▪ Environmentalists now say that a completely new transport policy is essential to curb the effects vehicles are having on our planet.
rail
▪ The use of buses is becoming even more important in relation to rail transport.
▪ This is likely to provide a further obstacle to clear and stable objectives for rail transport.
▪ Programme contracts were also to govern the implementation of the 1987 rail transport plan.
road
▪ After much deliberation, six horse-drawn vehicles were selected to complement the existing road transport collections.
▪ Other agreements were concluded concerning border crossings, agricultural, scientific and cultural co-operation, recognition of educational qualifications and road transport.
▪ Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry.
▪ This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.
▪ The biggest growth in carbon dioxide emissions, implicated in the major problem confronting humanity's survival, is from road transport.
▪ Sea, inland waterway, and road transport came under the control of the Commissariat as well as the railways.
▪ Cost benefit analysis particularly in conjunction with road transport.
▪ Unless you specialize in this form of road transport, you are likely to fall outside the strict confines of statutory regulations.
service
▪ A minimal public transport service was in operation.
▪ Consider the benefits of introducing a health authority transport service.
▪ A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London's transport services.
▪ Land freight transport services contributed £353m in 1991, an increase of more than £30m on 1990.
▪ Although no public transport service precisely covers the above itinerary in that form, local public transport makes the main points accessible.
▪ For example, routes will frequently be made economical only if adults are taken on the school transport services.
▪ By Road Carnlough is 35 miles from Belfast and is well connected with regular transport services.
▪ Public transport services clearly have direct benefits to those who use them but there are additional benefits of public transport provision.
spokesman
▪ Labour's transport spokesman, John Prescott, called on the Government to rescue the project by taking it into public control.
system
▪ Because they have money and because there is a good transport system, farmers also buy concentrated feedstuffs, called concentrates.
▪ Without the transport system the economy had to change.
▪ There have been two major approaches to characterising acid-base transport systems.
▪ People will remain disabled and dependent until they have access to the public transport systems which exclude them.
▪ Malabsorption of NaCl as a result of dysfunction of acid-base transport systems may be important in the pathogenesis of diarrhoeal disease.
▪ In fact, whilst some economic areas, especially the transport system, did improve in 1945, inflation grew worse.
▪ Female speaker I think we won't get a unified transport system.
▪ Neither the price nor any other characteristic of the transport system enters into it.
worker
▪ But transport workers say bus seats are safer as they are.
▪ And bringing an already faltering economy to its knees, transport workers brought the country to a virtual standstill in December.
▪ Unions supporting the motion included the transport workers, shop workers and public employees.
▪ Five explosions on buses in the early hours were carried out in support of a strike by public transport workers.
▪ A strike of transport workers in Krakow spread to other cities on Nov. 16.
▪ Many councillors, moreover, are builders, businessmen, transport workers, accountants and so forth who may have appropriate specialist knowledge.
▪ There are no regulations which limit the hours ships' crews work, unlike land transport workers.
■ VERB
improve
▪ They were keen to combat acid rain, freeze carbon dioxide emissions and improve public transport.
▪ For example, the Docklands Light Railway has improved public transport within a traditionally isolated part of London.
▪ Why not spend some of that money on improving public transport schemes - more energy efficient, safer and less polluting?
▪ Wearing his transport hat, Mr Prescott came up with several strategies for improving public transport and taking cars off the road.
▪ We will improve public transport, reduce traffic congestion, and encourage pedestrianisation and cycling schemes.
▪ We will support rural schools and improve public transport.
▪ The money will go towards improving transport, cleaning up the environment and creating jobs.
▪ We need more money to improve transport in London, and provide jobs where people need them.
provide
▪ The best policies will also provide transport to another resort if yours has insufficient snow.
▪ We will tackle the problem of congestion and environmental damage by enabling local authorities to provide better quality transport.
▪ Two of the rigs were to provide transport for the ordinary sect members, after their release.
▪ Mr Brown will draw up a multimillion-pound scheme to provide subsidised transport for people who find work.
▪ In addition, evidence has been provided for an active transport mechanism in the human intestinal mucosa.
▪ The Government has offered to provide transport and care for sixty children in need of treatment.
▪ They provided transport whenever we needed it, although sometimes it arrived a bit late!
use
▪ Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours, but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport.
▪ In fact, bicycles were used for serious transport of goods.
▪ Passengers Canals were used not only for transport of goods but also for ferrying passengers and for the occasional pleasure trip.
▪ They usually walk, or, if the distance is far, use public transport.
▪ Husqvarna reckons the bikes could even be used as daily transport.
▪ In mountain areas use motorised transport sparingly and park considerately.
▪ Caught by surprise, we used whatever means of transport were available.
▪ Building the waterways Since very early times the rivers of Britain have been used for water transport.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carrying goods by ship reduces transportation costs.
▪ Critics have pointed to the lack of transport links to the new attraction.
▪ The government is planning to tighten up regulations governing the transport of toxic waste.
▪ The price is $40, which includes transportation to the game and refreshments.
▪ We need more investment in natural gas distribution and transportation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After much deliberation, six horse-drawn vehicles were selected to complement the existing road transport collections.
▪ For these smaller cities, less expensive and more modestly scaled public transport and traffic restraint policies are more appropriate.
▪ It would be bad for public transport and for congestion.
▪ Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport.
▪ There is an illusion of sitting high above the ground, almost as if it was a transport aircraft.
▪ There the idea of parallel transport was found to be helpful.
▪ This suggests that the results obtained indeed reflect epithelial transport.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
goods
▪ Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites.
▪ Artix of Peterlee, vehicle to transport goods.
▪ He need not, however, transport the goods but can wait for the trader to come and collect them.
material
▪ Blue Circle of Eastgate, vehicles to transport materials.
▪ The procuticle is probably secreted around them and they may also transport material to the outer procuticle and epicuticle.
plane
▪ Non-local workers were transported by plane and housed in large, specially built camps or in adjacent accommodation ships.
rail
▪ Until after the 1939-45 war, nearly all the country's milk was transported by rail.
road
▪ You know and I know what 100 planes can do to troops, to towns and to transport on roads.
▪ From here the components of the Hercules will be transported by road to the Museum's storage facility.
sea
▪ Norman ore was to have been smelted there with Ruhr coal, transported cheaply by sea.
ship
▪ But all that changed when the Cali cartel switched tactics and started relying more on ships and trucks to transport drugs.
water
▪ The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water, eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal.
▪ The number of trips that can be expected for a spacecraft that transports water back from an asteroid is difficult to estimate.
▪ Elsewhere, railway lines tapped more effectively crops which had formerly been transported on water, by animals, or by porters.
▪ As the base grows, the cost of transporting the necessary water, oxygen, and food becomes ever more prohibitive.
▪ All three have within their stems strong woody vessels to transport the water absorbed by their roots.
world
▪ The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
▪ As you walk the hallways, with their institutional floors and smudged walls, you can be transported half way around the world.
▪ At the mention of the name Disraeli, Mark had been transported into a world of his own.
▪ It was a magic broom to transport me to another world, from poverty to riches.
▪ He was transporting her to another world, and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon.
▪ Ecstasy is a flight of the mind in which the mystic describes himself as being transported to another world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Raw materials were transported to Phoenix from the reservations.
▪ The company transports meat across the country in refrigerated containers.
▪ The incident raised concerns about the safety and security of nuclear weapons being transported through Europe.
▪ The plane is used for transporting military personnel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, while being transported by wind, it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition.
▪ An ambulance service volunteered its equipment to transport a severely crippled man home for weekends.
▪ He wants to sit next to her while facing a big screen and being transported by big-budget suspense or mayhem.
▪ It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon.
▪ Radiation is released during the handling and treatment of radioactive materials and as they are transported to and from nuclear sites.
▪ The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors, up steep, dark steps!
▪ To become a reality, electronic commerce needs a network infrastructure to transport the content.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transport

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.

  2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

  3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

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

    We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.
    --South.

Transport

Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]

  1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

    The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
    --Arbuthnot.

  2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.

  3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

    With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne.
    --Pope.

    Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled.
    --Doddridge.

  4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transport

late 14c., "convey from one place to another," from Old French transporter "carry or convey across; overwhelm (emotionally)" (14c.) or directly from Latin transportare "carry over, take across, convey, remove," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)). Sense of "carry away with strong feelings" is first recorded c.1500. Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1660s.

transport

mid-15c., originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation, carriage, conveyance" is recorded from 1690s; from transport (v.).

Wiktionary
transport

n. 1 An act of transporting; conveyance. 2 The state of being transported by emotion; rapture. 3 A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.) 4 (context Canada English) A tractor-trailer. 5 The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system. 6 A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc. 7 (context historical English) A deported convict. vb. 1 To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey. 2 (context historical English) To deport to a penal colony. 3 (context figuratively English) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

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WordNet
transport

  1. n. something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance]

  2. an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

  3. the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials [syn: transportation, shipping]

  4. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, exaltation, raptus]

  5. a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape drive, tape transport]

transport

  1. v. move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

  2. move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" [syn: carry]

  3. hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant]

  4. transport commercially [syn: send, ship]

  5. send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, channel, channelize, channelise]

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Wikipedia
Transport (disambiguation)

Transport is the movement of people and goods from place to place.

Transport may also refer to:

Transport (typeface)

Transport is a sans serif typeface first designed for road signs in the United Kingdom. It was created between 1957 and 1963 by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert as part of their work as designers for the Department of Transport's Anderson and Worboys committees.

Transport (band)

Transport is a three-piece independent rock band from Brisbane, Queensland, made up of Keir Nuttall (guitar, vocals), Scott Saunders (bass, vocals) and Steve Pope (drums).

Transport (SAP)

A SAP transport is a package which is used to transfer data from one SAP installation to another. This data can range from a simple printer driver to a whole SAP client. It can be considered as an "update", with the only difference being that SAP transports are made by the SAP users themselves. Transports can also be used to transfer data from external applications.

Transport (constituency)

Transport is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. 178 electors are only limited to transportation associations.

A similar Transport and Communication functional constituency was created for the 1995 election by Governor Chris Patten with a much larger electorate base of total 109,716 eligible voters.

Transport (recording)

A transport is a device that handles a particular physical storage medium (such as magnetic tape, audio CD, CD-R, or other type of recordable media) itself, and extracts or records the information to and from the medium, to (and from) an outboard set of processing electronics that the transport is connected to.

A transport houses no electronics itself for encoding and decoding the information recorded to and from a certain format of media. It only extracts and records information to the media, as well as handling mechanical operations for accessing the media itself, such as playing or rewinding a tape, or accessing the tracks on a disc.

An example of a transport for a storage medium would be an audiophile-grade audio CD transport, which houses no D/A converter, unlike most ordinary audio CD players. Instead, the audio CD transport is connected to an external D/A converter via a coaxial ( SPDIF) or optical ( Toslink) digital audio connection to convert the digital audio information to analog for interfacing to most audio equipment.

Here are some other examples of transports for recorded media:

  • A 16-track magnetic reel-to-reel tape recorder (using 1" wide tape) manufactured by Honeywell (the model 5600E) that was originally designed for recording instrumentation data, which was adapted for the Soundstream digital audio recording system developed in the mid-70s, and referred to by Soundstream as the "HTD" or Honeywell Tape Drive. It was in this case connected to external digital audio processing hardware (the "DTR", or Digital Tape Recorder, although it housed just the electronics for the HTD) designed by Soundstream,
  • The S-VHS videocassette mechanism utilized by ADAT-format multi-track digital audio recorders made by Alesis,
  • The Hi8 videocassette mechanism utilized by DTRS-format multi-track digital audio recorders made by Tascam such as the DA-88, and
  • A standard video cassette recorder (particularly using U-matic cassettes) used for recording digital audio with a PCM adaptor.
Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between persons, which is essential for the development of civilizations.

Transport infrastructure consists of the fixed installations including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations) and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance.

Vehicles traveling on these networks may include automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, trucks, people, helicopters, watercraft, spacecraft and aircraft. Operations deal with the way the vehicles are operated, and the procedures set for this purpose including financing, legalities and policies. In the transport industry, operations and ownership of infrastructure can be either public or private, depending on the country and mode.

Passenger transport may be public, where operators provide scheduled services, or private. Freight transport has become focused on containerization, although bulk transport is used for large volumes of durable items. Transport plays an important part in economic growth and globalization, but most types cause air pollution and use large amounts of land. While it is heavily subsidized by governments, good planning of transport is essential to make traffic flow and restrain urban sprawl.

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Usage examples of "transport".

He was in a transport of gratitude and joy at his liberation, and at the accomplishment of the events which he had wished to accelerate by assassination.

Being accredited meant being able to carry edged metal in transports, and I had never been so glad.

They were in the Entity Control area of the Level Eight docks, Affronter section, surrounded by Affronters, their slaved drones and other machines, a few members of other species who could tolerate the same conditions as the Affront, as well as numerous Tier sintricates - floating around like little dark balls of spines - all coming and going, leaving or joining travelators, spin cars, lifts and inter-section transport carriages.

FSP cruiser as the transport ship broke for the edge of the Ambrosian system.

But Sylvia Height was still there, and she sat on a stool next to a clerk arranging an ambulance transport from a nursing home.

Even inside the ambulance, the babies, according to the twins at least, had normal heart rates during the transport.

While the populace gazed with stupid wonder on the splendid show, the naturalist might indeed observe the figure and properties of so many different species, transported from every part of the ancient world into the amphitheatre of Rome.

The sun has burned away the mist, disclosing an almost solid mass of transports to seaward, beaches swarming with amphtracs and men, troops moving through cornfields toward the tableland, landing craft forming waves, earlier waves retracting.

He is standing knee-deep in some anguineous backwater of New Orleans swampland, feeling the mystic transport of his fellow creatures, the water witches and the Peremelfait, shrouded festively in the ghost-shapes of drowned pirates, decorated with Spanish moss and kudzu.

For the first, the technical directorate of an entire Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and maintenance appertaining thereto.

Notwithstanding the English and French cruisers, ships loaded with slaves leave the coasts of Angola and Mozambique every year to transport negroes to various parts of the world, and, it must be said, of the civilized world.

She kissed my hand in a transport of delight, assuring me that she would never forget my kindness.

Glazed the exact shade of green used in bardic robes, and etched inside and out with stylized water kigh, it had obviously been bought just for this purpose and transported carefully up into the mountains.

Besides, the blood transports the animal spirit, and I would be loath to infuse the bestiality of an ox into a person.

Assuming that you could transport men and mounts through all the perils that bestrew the way between here and the Realm Amphibious, once there they would be utterly defeated.