transitive to cause to move or travel by teleportation; esp. to convey or transport instantaneously from one place to another by means of an advanced technological device
The essential elements of sea-water, minus the undesirable saline properties, can be teleported to Mars.
Girls at the front—and they are discussing their usual not very profound subjects. The alarm—the enemy is advancing. Command to the poltergeist girls to concentrate—and under their chairs they stick their wads of chewing gum. A regiment bursts into flames, and the soldiers are torches. Horses snort smoke from the combustion of their entrails. Re-enforcements are smashed under cliffs that are teleported from the Rocky Mountains. The snatch of Niagara Falls—it pours upon the battle field. The little poltergeist girls reach for their wads of chewing gum.
This whole earth was built up by streams of rocks, teleported from other parts of an existence.
The power isn’t disciplined yet. If I’d tried to teleport Myra Calderon over to Jersey, say, I might have dropped her in the Hudson by mistake.
I have just rapidly cultured a migraine virus in my bloodstream and teleported it to your brain—you gorbellied knave!
I can teleport myself to anywhere in the universe. This may seem an enviable ability to those who do not possess it, but I can assure you that it raises more difficulties than it solves. I found this out recently when I decided to make my first real journey as a teleporter. The latent ability had developed in me only a year before that, and I had used it at first rather timidly, and mainly in my own apartment, popping in and out of rooms and scaring my cat so badly that she took off and has never come back.
What little mining we have on Darkover is done with a matrix circle to locate and teleport the minerals to the surface.
If you teleported a stranger into that room and told him he was in a whorehouse parlor, he would not believe you.
You're teleported into the robot’s head, and your sensation of consciousness is there now.
Traditional optics are long since obsolete—tunable matter can slow photons to a stop, teleport them here to there, play ping-pong with spin and polarization—and besides, the dumb matter in the walls and floor has been replaced by low-power computronium, heat sinks dangling far below the floor of the lily-pad habitat to dispose of the scanty waste photons from reversible computation.
antedating 1931
E. M. Johnston & Clark Ashton Smith, in Wonder Stories Quarterly
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