TRANSPORTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transporter mean? 

• TRANSPORTER (noun)
  The noun TRANSPORTER has 3 senses:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPORTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long truck for carrying motor vehicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

car transporter; transporter

Hypernyms ("transporter" is a kind of...):

motortruck; truck (an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling)

Derivation:

transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("transporter" is a kind of...):

crane (lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis)

Derivation:

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

conveyer; conveyer belt; conveyor; conveyor belt; transporter

Hypernyms ("transporter" is a kind of...):

belt (endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys)

Domain category:

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transporter"):

carousel; carrousel; luggage carousel; luggage carrousel (a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers)

Holonyms ("transporter" is a part of...):

assembly line; line; production line (mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it)

Derivation:

transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

 Context examples 

An orally available inhibitor of monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 Inhibitor AZD3965, NCI Thesaurus)

Monocarboxylate transporter 5 (487 aa, ~54 kDa) is encoded by the human SLC16A4 gene.

(Monocarboxylate Transporter 5, NCI Thesaurus)

B(0,+)-type amino acid transporter 1 (487 aa, ~53 kDa) is encoded by the human SLC7A9 gene.

(B(0,+)-Type Amino Acid Transporter 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene, which encodes membrane-associated transporter protein, plays a role in cell cycle regulation and cellular proliferation.

(AIM2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A selective sodium-glucose co-transporter subtype 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor with antihyperglycemic activity.

(Atigliflozin, NCI Thesaurus)

This half-transporter likely plays a role in mitochondrial function.

(ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family B, Member 6, NCI Thesaurus)

Knowing the structure of the transporter can help researchers gain insights into the molecular causes of these disorders and of antidepressant treatment resistance.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

They then created a strain of E. coli that made the transporter.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

Neutral amino acid transporter A (532 aa, ~56 kDa) is encoded by the human SLC1A4 gene.

(Neutral Amino Acid Transporter A, NCI Thesaurus)

It is purported to be involved in the modulation of amphipathic transporters and their activities.

(ATP8A2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)