Rapture vs. Transport

Rapturenoun

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

Rapturenoun

In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")

Rapturenoun

(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

Rapturenoun

(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

Rapturenoun

(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.

Rapturenoun

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Raptureverb

To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

Raptureverb

To experience great happiness or excitement.

Raptureverb

(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

Raptureverb

To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

Raptureverb

(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

Rapturenoun

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

Rapturenoun

The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.

Rapturenoun

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Raptureverb

To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

Rapturenoun

a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

Rapturenoun

a state of elated bliss

Rapturenoun

a feeling of intense pleasure or joy

Rapturenoun

expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something

Rapturenoun

(according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ

Raptureverb

(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ

Rapture

The rapture is an eschatological theological position held by some Christians, particularly within branches of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise The origin of the term extends from Paul the Apostle's First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, in which he uses the Greek word harpazo (Ancient Greek: ἁρπάζω), meaning or and explains that believers in Jesus Christ will be snatched away from earth into the air.The idea of a rapture as it is currently defined is not found in historic Christianity, but is a relatively recent doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism. The term is most frequently used among Evangelical Protestant theologians in the United States.

Transportverb

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

Transportverb

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

Transportverb

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

Transportnoun

An act of transporting; conveyance.

Transportnoun

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

Transportnoun

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

Transportnoun

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

Transportnoun

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

Transportnoun

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

Transportnoun

(historical) A deported convict.

Transportverb

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

Transportverb

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

Transportverb

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transportnoun

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

Transportnoun

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Transportnoun

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

Transportnoun

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Transportnoun

something that serves as a means of transportation

Transportnoun

an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

Transportnoun

the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Transportnoun

a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

Transportnoun

a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Transportverb

move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Transportverb

move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

Transportverb

hold spellbound

Transportverb

transport commercially

Transportverb

send from one person or place to another;

Transportverb

take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

Transportverb

send (a convict) to a penal colony

Transportverb

cause (someone) to feel that they are in another place or time

Transportverb

overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

Transportnoun

a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

Transportnoun

the action of transporting something or the state of being transported

Transportnoun

a large vehicle, ship, or aircraft used to carry troops or stores

Transportnoun

a convict who was transported to a penal colony.

Transportnoun

an overwhelmingly strong emotion

Transport

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.