Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]
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Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
--Arbuthnot. 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.
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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. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
Wiktionary
n. (label en nautical) A ship that is used to transport military personnel; a troop ship.
WordNet
n. a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment
Usage examples of "transport ship".
The transport ship appeared as a ball of fire in the sky as the retros ignited in atmosphere and slowed the descent velocity.
They had risen above the screening terrain, the hills from which the iron ore had been mined to cushion the vast bulk of the transport ship which was settling to earth.