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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
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