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S: (n) theodolite, transit (a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod)
S: (n) transportation system, transportation, transit (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)
S: (n) passage, transit (a journey usually by ship) "the outward passage took 10 days"

S: (v) transit, pass through, move through, pass across, pass over (make a passage or journey from one place to another) "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs"; "Some travelers pass through the desert"
S: (v) transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)) "The comet will transit on September 11"

S: (v) pass (go across or through) "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind"

S: (v) transit (revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction)
S: (v) transit (cause or enable to pass through) "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"

S: (v) bring, convey, take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere) "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"

S: (v) fetch (take away or remove) "The devil will fetch you!"
S: (v) transit (cause or enable to pass through) "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
S: (v) ferry (transport from one place to another)
S: (v) return, take back, bring back (bring back to the point of departure)
S: (v) tube (convey in a tube) "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
S: (v) whisk (move somewhere quickly) "The President was whisked away in his limo"
S: (v) impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel (transmit or serve as the medium for transmission) "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
S: (v) land (bring ashore) "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"