## Meanings
1. The system or vehicles used for carrying people or goods from one place to another.
2. To carry people or goods from one place to another.
3. The act of carrying people or goods from one place to another.

## Examples
- Public transport in the city is cheap and reliable.
- The goods are transported by truck across the country.
- The transport of fresh food requires refrigerated trucks.

## Synonyms
- deport
- exile
- expatriate
- extradite

## Related Forms
- antitransport
- transportability
- transportable
- transportage
- transportation
- transporter
- transportive

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: transporten
- Root: transporter
- Root: trānsportō
- Affix: trans- - across

## Etymology
From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).

## AI Etymology
Transport is from Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”). In present-day use, it can mean the system or vehicles used for carrying people or goods from one place to another, or to carry people or goods from one place to another.

## Topics
- Transportation

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