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Definition: Transporter |
TransporterNoun1. A long truck for carrying motor vehicles. 2. A crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships. 3. A moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | Hauling firm that picks up properly packaged and labeled hazardous waste from generators and transports it to designated facilities for treatment, storage, or disposal. Transporters are subject to EPA and DOT hazardous waste regulations. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Wide, powered spool(usually hydraulic)on which a trawl or salmon purse seine net is wound when hauling. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: TransporterSynonyms: conveyer (n), conveyer belt (n), conveyor (n), conveyor belt (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Transporter |
| Specialty definitions using "transporter": cableway transporter, cantilever crane, Conditionally Exempt Generators, Corbeaux ♦ ground-handling equipment ♦ Identification Code or EPA I.D. Number ♦ Mazindol ♦ Operator Certification ♦ Sodium-Hydrogen Antiporter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Transporter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (carry, carry away, carry forward, cart, convey, deliver, freight, freightage, haul, lift, move, run, take away, thrill, tote, transfer, transport), German (cargo ship, transport, transport plane, transporter, transporters, Van), Latin (carry or convey across, transport), Serbo-Croatian (transporter). |
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Screenplays | You mean you got the Galactic Trig to set up an 800 light year transporter beam just because you changed your mind? (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Transporter (2002) | |
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 | Using recombinant DNA technology, a transgenic mouse has been engineered whose bone marrow is protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy by expression of the MDR 1 gene. This animal system allows rapid screening of drugs which inhibit the multidrug transporter and heralds a new era of using transgenic animals for pharmacologic screening. Multidrug resistance resulting from expression of an energy-dependent drug efflux pump encoded by the human MDR gene is a major impediment to effective cancer therapy. Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |  | Shepard Next to Modular Equipment Transporter. Credit: NASA. |
 | Aerial View of Apollo 11 Saturn V on Transporter. Credit: NASA. |  | Apollo 12 Saturn V on Transporter. Credit: NASA. |
 | Freighter under transporter bridge, Duluth, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | These transporter molecules come in several forms. (references) | |
Normally dopamine is then recycled back into the transmitting neuron by a specialized protein called the dopamine transporter. (references) | ||
This decline in transporter concentration means that any further threat to the remaining dopamine transporters could result in Parkinson's disease. (references) | ||
Business | Enron acquired 94 percent of CALIFE, a company that has been in business since 1911 with current annual power sales of 285 GWh. Industrias Ventane is a leading distributor and transporter of LPG in Venezuela, serving 2.5 million residential, commercial and industrial customers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Transporter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.31% of the time. "Transporter" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.31% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.69% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "transporter": gas transporter. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "transporter": transporter-erector, transporter-mediated. | |
Ending with "transporter": car-transporter, co-transporter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "transporter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | transportues (carrier, conveyer, tramp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المستخف, الناقل (carrier, pencil pusher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | транспортьор (conveyer), конвейер (conveyer, line), мостов кран (traveling crane, travelling crane), подвижен кран. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 运"者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | transportér (conveyor), přepravce (haulier, shipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | transportvirksomhed,vejtransportvirksomhed, omladningsapparat (transfer bridge, travelling gantry), nettromle (net drum, net roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | transporteur (carrier), vrachtrijder, vrachtrýder (carrier), voerman (carrier, driver), vervoerder,wegvervoerder, vervoerder (carrier), overlaadinricbting (transfer bridge, travelling gantry), nettentrommel (net drum, net roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | transportisto (carrier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | verkkorumpu (net drum, net roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transporteur routier (trucker), transporteur (transport operator), transbordeur (transfer, transfer bridge, travelling gantry), tambour de chalut, véhicule chenillé (crawler transporter), porte d'autos, enrouleur de filet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Transporter (cargo ship, transport, transport plane, transporters, Van). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινητός γερανός (transfer bridge, travelling gantry), γερανογέφυρα (gantry), μηχάνημα μεταφορτώσεως (transfer bridge, travelling gantry), μετακομιστήσ (conveyor, truckman), μεταφορέασ (carrier, conveyer, courier, remover), τύμπανο περιέλιξης διχτυού (net drum, net roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szállítmányozó (carrier, conveyer, conveyor, haulage contractor, supplier, Waggoner, Wagoner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengangkut (carrier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasportatore su strada, trasportatore (carrier, conveyor), trasbordatore (transfer bridge, travelling gantry), tamburo salparete (net drum, net roller), tamburo avvolgirete (net drum, net roller), autotreno (lorry with trailer, trailer truck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 운송업자 (Forwarder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkagh (bearer, carrier, carrier person, conveyor, haulage contractor; sustaining, haulier, portable, porter, vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | transportadó (carrier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ansportertray transportador rodoviário, transportador (aeroplane carrier, carrying, hauler, haulier), tambor da rede (net drum, net roller), mecanismo transportador. (various references) транспортер (carrier, conveyer). (various references) transporter. (various references) transportista por carretera (haulier, road haulier, trucker), transbordador (ferry, ferryboat), tambor para estiba de la red (net drum, net roller), tambor de red (net drum, net roller), estibador de la red (net drum, net roller). (various references) tråltrumma (net drum, net roller), nättrumma (net drum, net roller). (various references) taşıyıcı (bearer, carrier, contact, conveyer, conveyor, germ carrier, haulier, mover, vector, vehicle), nakliyeci (Carman, carrier, carrying agent, goods agent, haulier, mover, remover, shipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "transporter": transporters. (additional references) | |
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"Transporter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tranceporter, transportees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "transporter" (pronounced transpô"rter) |
| 6 | -s p ô" r t er | exporter. |
| 5 | -p ô" r t er | importer, porter, reporter, supporter. |
| 4 | -ô" r t er | Courter, mortar, quarter, shorter, sorter. |
| 3 | -r t er | barter, Carter, charter, darter, garter, headquarter, hindquarter, martyr, nonstarter, Sartor, smarter, starter, tartar, Tarter. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: parroters, patentors, prostrate, transport. | |
-3 letters: antrorse, arrestor, operants, parroter, partners, patentor, patterns, portents, praetors, pronates, prorates, prostate, proteans, rostrate, torrents, transept, trapnest. | |
-4 letters: arpents, atoners, attorns, entraps, errants, esparto, natters, notates, operant, parents, parrots, partner, partons, pastern, patents, patrons, pattens, pattern, patters, perrons, persona, portent, porters, postern, potters, praetor, praters, presort, pretors, pronate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: transporters. | |
+4 letters: preregistration. | |
+5 letters: preregistrations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 73 70 6F 72 74 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n s p o r t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0070 006F 0072 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5484678085828184867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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