Lofty vs Transported - What's the difference?
lofty | transported | Related terms |
high, tall, having great height or stature
* {{quote-book
, year=1862
, author=George Borrow
, title=Wild Wales
, chapter=98
idealistic, implying over-optimism
* 2013 , Delme Parfitt in Wales Online'', ''Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win (3 November 2013)
extremely proud; arrogant; haughty
* F. Harrison
(transport)
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
(historical) To deport to a penal colony.
(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
* Milton
* South
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.
Lofty is a related term of transported.
As a proper noun lofty
is (informal) nickname for a tall (usually male) person.As a verb transported is
(transport).lofty
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Adjective
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- a lofty bed
- a lofty goal
- A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
transported
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Verb
(head)transport
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Verb
(en verb)- to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
- Music transports the soul.
- [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
- We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.