Port
[pɔːt] or [pɔrt]
Definition
(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 .
Checker: Mattie--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
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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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SITUATION]
SYN:Haven, harbor, mien, bearing, demeanor, carriage, deportment, air,[SeeDEPORTMENT_and_MIEN]
Editor: Lora
Definition
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.
Editor: Meredith
Examples
- Odessa is about twenty hours' run from Sebastopol, and is the most northerly port in the Black Sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Get some more port, Bowls, old boy, whilst I buzz this bottle here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In short, Mr Blandois found that to pour port wine into the reticent Flintwinch was, not to open him but to shut him up. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They spoke glibly of the after cabin, the for'rard cabin, port and starboard and the fo'castle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Vicar, after a glass of port, was obliged to hurry away to a meeting, and the shy nephew, who appeared to be an invalid, was packed off to bed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Soon the Grand Trunk Railroad was extended from Toronto to Port Huron, at the foot of Lake Huron, and thence to Detroit, at about the same time the War of the Rebellion broke out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I knew that if the same excitement was attained at the various small towns along the road, and especially at Port Huron, the sale of papers would be great. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We have great fleets in the Mediterranean, but they seldom touch at African ports. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Though there are in Europe indeed, a few towns which, in same respects, deserve the name of free ports, there is no country which does so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Key West and Pensacola were also in our possession, while all the important ports were blockaded by the navy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy's ships into his ports. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This liberty, indeed, extends to no more than twenty-five of the different ports of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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