Port

[pɔːt] or [pɔrt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through.

(noun.) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal.

(noun.) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country.

(verb.) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform.

(verb.) drink port; 'We were porting all in the club after dinner'.

(verb.) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons; 'port a rifle'.

(verb.) carry, bear, convey, or bring; 'The small canoe could be ported easily'.

(verb.) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship; 'The big ship was slowly porting'.

(verb.) land at or reach a port; 'The ship finally ported'.

(verb.) bring to port; 'the captain ported the ship at night'.

(verb.) put or turn on the left side, of a ship; 'port the helm'.

(adj.) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft .

整理:马提--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

(v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.

(v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.

(n.) A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.

(n.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.

(n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.

(v. t.) To carry; to bear; to transport.

(v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.

(n.) The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.

(n.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.

(v. t.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Harbor, haven, roadstead, anchorage.[2]. Entrance, passage-way.[3]. Embrasure, port-hole.[4]. Larboard, left side.[5]. Demeanor, behavior, bearing, air, mien, carriage, deportment.[6]. Port-wine.

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同義詞及反義詞：

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SYN:Haven, harbor, mien, bearing, demeanor, carriage, deportment, air,[SeeDEPORTMENT_and_MIEN]

整理:罗拉

解釋/意思:

n. the larboard or left side of a ship.—v.t. to turn to the left as the helm.—v.i. to turn to larboard or left.

n. martial music on the bagpipes.

n. bearing: demeanour: carriage of the body.—v.t. to hold as a musket in a slanting direction upward across the body.—ns. Portabil′ity Port′ableness the state of being portable.—adj. Port′able that may be carried: not bulky or heavy.—ns. Port′age act of carrying: carriage: price of carriage: a space between two rivers canals &c. over which goods and boats have to be carried; Port′ance (Spens.) carriage bearing.—adjs. Por′tāte (her.) in a position as if being carried; Por′tatile portable; Por′tative easily carried.—ns. Port′-cray′on a metallic handle for holding a crayon; Porte′-bonheur′ a charm carried for luck; Porte′-coché‘¢e a carriage entrance leading from the street into a building; Porte′-mon′naie a small clasped pocket-book for holding money; Port′-fire a slow-match or match-cord.

n. a harbour: a haven or safe station for vessels: a place from which vessels start and at which they finish their voyages.—n. Port′-ad′miral the admiral commanding at a naval port.—n.pl. Port′-charg′es payments which a ship has to pay while in harbour.—n. Port′-ward′en the officer in charge of a port: a harbour-master.—Port of call a port where vessels can call for stores or repairs; Port of entry a port where merchandise is allowed by law to enter.—Free port a port where no duty has to be paid on landing goods.

n. a gate or entrance esp. of a walled town: an opening in the side of a ship for light or air: an opening through which guns can be fired: the lid of a porthole: a passage in a machine for oil steam &c.—n. Port′age (Shak.) an opening.

n. a dark-red wine from Oporto Portugal.

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