Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To travel from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.
- v. transitive To move an object in this fashion, as by telekinesis.
- n. science fiction A teleporter.
- n. A satellite ground station.
WordNet 3.0
- v. transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another
Etymologies
- Back-formation from teleportation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Alan Cumming plays Nightcrawler, whose ability to teleport is nowhere near as memorable as his demonic visage.”
“Heck, if they get tagged with a dimensional anchor, teleport is not even an option.”
“He sprang about in short teleport hops, crossing the vast chamber from one side to another and going from end to end of it.”
“FREE: Attribute Changer - Change file attributes recursively on multiple files and folders VirtualBox cross-platform "teleport" - Deploying Windows 7 - SQL Server 2008 R2 release date -”
“Another product, called "teleport extender," will allow users to access their phones from their PCs, including receiving text messages and other alerts.”
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“They are able to teleport, which is a huge advantage.”
“On the other side of the teleport was a cyber/steampunk fantasy on a cinematic scale which I now present to you dark roasted, having made use of AM Radio's delightful Nostalgia Windlight preset to record my impressions.”
“I found this program called teleport which allows me to share a single keyboard and mouse between computers.”
“And secondly, they keep harping on how he's going to move fast and not "teleport" which never occured in the original either.”
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“Click on this link and Second Life will "teleport" your avatar to the Netroots Nation area.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teleport’.
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Any port
support, deport, export, import, report, disport, rapport, teleport, transport, besport, watersport, spoilsport and 15 more...
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crime slang
slang terms for crimes, also words associated with shady behaviour
phony paper passin, stroppy, situation, clip, flip, artform, volatile, teleport, squee, futz, fizzog, hotch up and 23 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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golem100's Words
bucolic, pusillanimous, interregnum, periphery, exegesis, antipathy, deleterious, cantankerous, anhydrous, tintinnabulous, grok, scabrous and 19 more...
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