teleport
1 Americanverb (used with object)
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teleports,
present (3rd person singular)
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teleported,
past participle, past
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teleporting
present participle
noun
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teleports
plural
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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teleportsimple
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teleportssimple
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have teleportedperfect
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has teleportedperfect
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am teleportingprogressive
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are teleportingprogressive
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is teleportingprogressive
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have been teleportingperfect progressive
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has been teleportingperfect progressive
Past
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teleportedsimple
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had teleportedperfect
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was teleportingprogressive
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were teleportingprogressive
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had been teleportingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of teleport1
1950–55; back formation from teleportation, equivalent to tele- 1 + (trans)portation
Origin of teleport2
Explanation
To teleport is to disappear and then reappear at a different place. If you’re waiting in line in the freezing cold, you probably wish you could teleport yourself inside to the concert. Unfortunately, we can’t really teleport yet. On Star Trek and in other science fiction, people teleport all the time. They are zapped, then they disappear and then reappear somewhere else, like on a different planet. If you could teleport, you wouldn't have to drive a car, fly in a plane, or even walk anywhere: you could simply teleport there. The word is made up of tele, which is Greek for “distance,” and French portare for “carry.”
Vocabulary lists containing teleport
Far and Away: Tele
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Example Sentences
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We may not be able to teleport, either physically or via hologram, but we can Zoom or video chat with pretty much anyone anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
First, they decided to ignore outlandish algorithms that would try to teleport to random points in the graph in hopes of stumbling upon the exit.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
“It’s as if you teleport yourself to the answer, but you have no idea how you got there,” he says.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2023
The founder of the Michigan-based technology company Aperture Science, he’s invented a portal gun that allows people to teleport to various locations.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 19, 2023
If I could teleport, I could be there within minutes.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
In “The End of Oak Street,” a Michigan suburb is mysteriously blipped into the Cretaceous period and the movie theater teleports back four decades to when a picture like this opened every month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Opened by Franco Noriega and Milan Kelez in 2016, this West Village hot spot teleports you to a tropical oasis thanks to the vibrant greenery, strong cocktails, and live Latin music.
From Fox News ● Feb. 13, 2022
"You got some kind of food or something that just teleports you right back home, makes you feel all warm and fuzzy?"
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2021
The real treat is how the food teleports me back to the memory of my grandmothers’ meals.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
BOTHA: Unfortunately, there’s no way for us to know what is or is not for the global good until someone actually teleports, which could, theoretically, destroy life as we know it.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
One theory is that today’s 20-year-olds were just launching into teenhood when the pandemic teleported them from their classrooms to isolated computer screens.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
For the first time, they successfully teleported the polarization state of a single photon from one quantum dot to another that was physically separated.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026
When I first walked into the studio, I felt like I'd teleported inside a movie.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
“Hiking up through the garden entrance at sunset is like being teleported to another world,” he says.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
From there, I teleported back to the transport terminal next to my school on Ludus.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
And he had saved many sailors by flying through the sky to their aid during storms, calming the waves, trimming the sails, grasping the drowning by their hair and teleporting them to land.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
"In virtual environments, teleportation can lead to reduced spatial awareness, forcing users to reorient themselves after teleporting and can cause them to miss important elements in their surroundings," says Medlar.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024
She recently told olympics.org that if she could pick a superpower, “I think teleporting would be real cool.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
In a show that features everyday encounters with sex ghosts, time travel and a non-binary hero who is teleporting a community sheltering extraordinary outcasts, ravenous zombie butts are on brand.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2022
I considered teleporting to Incipio before my “interview,” to buy a new skin for my avatar.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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