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Grammar : Adj
Spell : verb trans-pawrt, -pohrt; noun trans-pawrt, -pohrt
Phonetic Transcription : verb trænsˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt; noun ˈtræns pɔrt, -poʊrt

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Définition of transportable

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French transporter "carry or convey across" (14c.), from Latin transportare, from trans- "across" (see trans-) + portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)). Sense of "carry away with strong feelings" is first recorded c.1500. Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1660s. The noun is attested from mid-15c., originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation" is recorded from 1690s.
  • adj mobile
Example sentences :
  • There is one property, however, which is of too great dimensions to be transportable.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 » by Various
  • A great messenger of life, and one of the most transportable, is the solid cocoanut.
  • Extract from : « The Sea » by Jules Michelet
  • The hospital force had gone with all its transportable patients.
  • Extract from : « The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse » by Vicente Blasco Ibanez
  • About midnight the French soldiers came to seek those who were transportable.
  • Extract from : « New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 » by Various
  • The Turkish tent is the most highly finished of transportable habitations (p. 164–166).
  • Extract from : « The Races of Man » by Joseph Deniker
  • Do you think, if I could manage to send him over to Ireland, that we could get him indicted for any transportable offence?
  • Extract from : « The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II.(of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Transportable antiquities found on a man's land must be reported by him within a week.
  • Extract from : « How to Observe in Archaeology » by Various
  • Trying a man under sentence of death for a transportable felony, is contrary to all practice.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 » by Various
  • Suddenly the transportable search-lights of the enemy went into action, and swept up and down the river.
  • Extract from : « A German deserter's war experience » by Anonymous
  • They bought and carried away the grilles and whatever else was transportable from the cells where the victims had been shut up.
  • Extract from : « Historic Paris » by Jetta S. Wolff
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