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Spell Bee Word: Transport


What does transport mean?

Word: Transport

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Transport means a way of carrying people or goods from one place to another, such as buses, trains and ships; as a verb, to carry them.

Synonyms: conveyance, transportation

How do you spell transport?

Syllables: trans - port

Tricky part: The s before the p is easy to lose. Students often write tranport.

Watch out for: tranport, transpot, transpoart

Memory tip: Hiss the s before you say the p: it is the letter most often dropped.

Transport in a sentence

Example 1: The metro is the fastest public transport in our city.

Example 2: Trucks transport mangoes from Ratnagiri to markets across India.

Example 3: Camels were once the main transport in the Thar desert.

Fun Fact

Transport comes from Latin words meaning to carry across.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) transparant
b) tranlate
c) transfere
d) transport

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d) transport. Transfer, transparent and translate are the right forms of the other three, so transport is the correct one.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

sortpartn

a) transpose
b) transmit
c) passport
d) transport

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d) transport. There is no e, m or i in the jumble, and it has an n, so three choices drop out.

Word Cookie

Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:

tr_nsp_rt

a) a,a
b) e,o
c) a,o
d) a,u

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c) a,o. Trans has an a, and the second part is spelt like a ship's port.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Public transport includes ____.

a) a city bus
b) a school bicycle
c) a private car
d) a family scooter

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a) a city bus

2. Which of these is a form of water transport?

a) a ferry
b) a metro train
c) a tram
d) a cable car

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a) a ferry

Associated Words

Words that end in -ort: discomfort, exhort, airport, comfort

More words from this list

architecture, captain, corridor, documentary, gadget, invigilate, offended, reproach

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