Transporting
verbCarrying people or goods from one place to another.
How to spell transporting
12 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce transporting
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does transporting mean?
- verbCarrying people or goods from one place to another.
- adjectiveSo delightful or moving that it carries one away with emotion.
Transporting in a sentence
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verb
The company spends a fortune transporting fresh produce overnight.
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adjective
The orchestra gave a transporting performance that left the audience in tears.
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verb
A fleet of lorries was transporting steel to the coast.
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adjective
She described the novel's final chapter as utterly transporting.
Where does transporting come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word traces back to the Latin verb transportare, which was formed from trans, meaning 'across' or 'beyond', and portare, meaning 'to carry'. The literal sense was simply 'to carry something from one place to another', and that core meaning has survived almost unchanged into modern English. English took the verb 'transport' through Old French in the late 1300s, and the present participle 'transporting' followed naturally. The same portare root carries (quite literally) inside a whole family of everyday words, including 'porter', 'import', 'export', and 'portable'. A more poetic sense also developed, in which a person could be 'transported' by strong emotion, as if carried away beyond themselves, which is why something delightful can still be described as transporting. The spelling stays regular: keep the single 't' before the '-ing', since 'transport' is stressed on the second syllable in a way that does not trigger doubling.
How the word is built
- trans- (across)
- port (from Latin portare: to carry)
- -ing (present participle/gerund suffix)
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