How to spell transport

Transport is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T.

hear ittrans·port/trأ¦ns'poتٹrt/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To carry or move something from one place to another.

In a sentence: The school bus will transport us to the zoo.

Same family: transportation, transported, transporter, import, export. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Transport comes from Latin roots: 'trans' meaning 'across' and 'portare' meaning 'to carry'. So the original idea of transport was literally to 'carry across' a distance or border.

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