Other forms: transported, transporting, transports
To transport is to move goods or people from one place to another. A van, a train, a ship, a pipeline.
The noun, stressed on the first syllable, means the whole system of getting about, so public transport is buses and trains together, and Americans usually say transportation instead. The verb is stressed on the second. History gave the word a grim use, since transporting a convict meant shipping them to a penal colony. There is also a lovely old figurative sense, since being transported by music means being carried away by it.
1verbtransportTo carry people or goods from one place to another.
“The stone was transported by barge.”
2nounmeansThe means or system of moving people and goods.
“Public transport in the city is excellent.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
Old French
transporter
Middle English
transporten
English, today
transport
From Middle English transporten, from Old French transporter. Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō (“to carry over, take across, carry, convey, remove, transport”), from trāns- + portō. by surface analysis, trans- + port.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA