American English pronunciation
How to pronounce transporting
IPA transcription: [tɹæns'pɔɹtɪŋ]
Pronunciation variants: [tɹæns'pɔɹtɪŋ][tɹæns'pɚtɪŋ]
Hear “transporting” pronounced
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Verb
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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”
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transport commercially
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move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
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hold spellbound
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send from one person or place to another
“transmit a message”
Usage examples
- Typical goals include transporting cargo and defending allied convoys.
- On longer trips, containers for securely transporting feces out of the cave are carried.
- After transporting Hasekura to the Spanish possessions of Mexico, the ship returned to Japan.
- Two oral accounts of transporting corpses are included in Liao Yiwu's "The Corpse Walker".
- "Mauretania" was transporting "Titanic"s cargo manifest carried by registered mail.
- It was used for transporting building materials destined for the Camarasa marshland.
- The island has a small harbor for transporting goods and people from nearby islands.