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The art of making a thing be somewhere it previously wasn't, on purpose.
means To carry someone or something from one place to another — or to be so overwhelmed by emotion that you feel swept off to another state entirely.
from From Latin trans- ('across') plus portare ('to carry'), the same portare that gives us 'porter' and 'portable.' The literal sense — carrying goods or people across distance — is the oldest. The emotional sense ('transported with joy/grief/rage') arrives later as a metaphor: the feeling is so strong it physically relocates you, carries you out of yourself, the same way a cart carries cargo across town.
- oldest wheel
- Dates to around 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia
- word twin
- 'Transport' also means overwhelming emotion, as in ecstasy
- biggest mover
- Shipping carries about 80 percent of world trade by volume
- future shift
- Trains emit far less CO2 per mile than planes