Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which transports or removes.
- noun A trade-name of a special type of derrick-boom. It may be an I-beam, the lower flange of which serves as a track for a traveling hoisting-carriage, or a hollow beam having a track suspended from the under side; and it can be used as a derrick-boom, or may be suspended from a gallows-frame or from another derrick. It employs a traveling hoisting-carriage resembling one used in a cableway.
- noun In machinery, in general, any carrying device, as one used for transporting coal from one vessel to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who transports.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which
transports .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
- noun a long truck for carrying motor vehicles
- noun a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Five hundred years ago, our scientists were experimenting with matter transmission, what you call transporter technology.
INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000
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Five hundred years ago, our scientists were experimenting with matter transmission, what you call transporter technology.
INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000
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Five hundred years ago, our scientists were experimenting with matter transmission, what you call transporter technology.
INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000
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The hyperspace transporter is a cowardly form of warfare, which does not commend itself to me or Earth Gov.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The hyperspace transporter is a cowardly form of warfare, which does not commend itself to me or Earth Gov.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Plus there is the risk of being lost in transporter subspace and getting turned into a gigantic Lt. Barkely-devouring/loving worm!
Star Trek: Blog for a Borg at Fantasy Magazine wendigomountain 2009
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The funny thing about the transporter is that Gene Roddenberry wanted to do the shuttle-landing sequence, but the miniatures SFX were too expensive to shoot, so they came up with the transporter as a cheaper solution.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Get your new trek toys now. 2009
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It's really just the $5,500 x2 all-terrain transporter tricked out for the links.
Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives 2006
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The amygdala and the cingulate were playing a duet under the baton of the serotonin transporter gene.
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Despite the tragic loss of Ensign Franklin, Captain Scott successfully demonstrated that it is possible to preserve high-resolution matter-energy signatures in long-term transporter stasis.
The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002
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