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Borne vs Transported - What's the difference?

borne | transported |

As an adjective borne

is narrow.

As a verb transported is

(transport).

borne

English

Adjective

(-)
  • carried, supported.
  • * 1901 -
  • In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
  • * 1881: ", Poems , page 44
  • When, bright with purple and with gold,
    Come priest and holy cardinal,
    And borne above the heads of all
    The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
  • * c.2000 - , II
  • Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

    Derived terms

    * airborne * waterborne

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]
  • *:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”
  • Synonyms

    * endured

    transported

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (transport)

  • transport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
  • (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • Music transports the soul.
  • * Milton
  • [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
  • * South
  • We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.

    Synonyms

    * (carry or bear from one place to another) convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship * banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite * (move someone to strong emotion) carry away, enrapture

    Noun

    (wikipedia transport)
  • An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
  • (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • (historical) A deported convict.
  • Synonyms

    * (act of transporting) conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping * (state of being transported by emotion) rapture * * * (system of transporting people) See public transport * (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder) * deportee, exile, expatriate

    Derived terms

    * means of transport English heteronyms ----