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1. | [ noun ] (geography) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | |
Related terms: | geographic_point Chicago San_Francisco Detroit St._Louis Baltimore seaport Houston Savannah Newport Honolulu Seattle New_Orleans Palermo Odessa Dublin Newcastle Acapulco Lisbon Liverpool Messina Veracruz Hong_Kong Vancouver Djibouti Oran Algiers Hobart Antwerp Oslo Reykjavik Tripoli Dubrovnik Victoria Muscat Saint_John Saint_John's Hamilton Natal Recife Bergen Luanda Sao_Paulo Hull Trondheim Paramaribo Bristol Malmo Buenos_Aires port_of_entry outport Oakland Bridgeport Valdez Ayr Glasgow Hannover Goteborg Swansea Helsinki Alexandria Cairo accho Pusan chittagong Monrovia Benghazi Port_Louis Casablanca Lagos brest Asuncion Gdansk chemulpo Doha Castries Pago_Pago Dakar Victoria Freetown Mogadiscio Cape_Town Rostov Tallinn Riga haiphong Baku Barcelona Cadiz Cartagena sousse Bangkok Tunis Mobile Corinth Valparaiso Antofagasta Osaka Jacksonville Hiroshima Thessalonika Nagasaki Mombasa Haifa Shanghai montego_bay Charleston bridgetown Norfolk Bordeaux Cuidad_Bolivar Aden durazzo cartagena aspinwall mazatlan tampico santiago cotonou aarhus Cannes Jaffa aalborg stavanger Conakry maarianhamina salonica brindisi la_spezia thunder_bay Georgetown gand pompey cork galway limerick waterford samarang abadan basia yokohama kisumu Naples calais le_havre marseille nantes banjul Canton tarabulus sur auckland oporto setubal jidda capital_of_somalia durban murmansk dneprodzerzhinsk malaga sevilla port_sudan adalia izmir dubai santos alpena duluth portsmouth newport_news portsmouth maracaibo treaty_port home_port annaba lushun barranquilla massawa patrai belem cherbourg beira free_port cumana al-hudaydah al-mukalla entrepot | |
2. | [ noun ] (food) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | |
Synonyms: | port_wine | |
Related terms: | fortified_wine | |
3. | [ noun ] (arms) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | |
Synonyms: | porthole embrasure | |
Related terms: | opening ship | |
4. | [ noun ] (nautical) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose | |
Synonyms: | larboard | |
Related terms: | starboard side | |
5. | [ verb ] carry, bear, convey, or bring | |
Examples: | "The small canoe could be ported easily" |
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Related terms: | transport porter | |
6. | [ verb ] (nautical) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | |
Examples: | "The big ship was slowly porting" |
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Related terms: | turn larboard | |
7. | [ verb ] drink port | |
Examples: | "We were porting all night in the club" |
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Related terms: | drink | |
8. | [ verb ] (nautical,transportation) land at or reach a port | |
Examples: | "The ship finally ported" |
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Related terms: | land | |
9. | [ adjective ] on the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft when facing forward | |
Synonyms: | left larboard | |
Examples: | "the port side" |
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Related terms: | starboard left left | |
10. | [ verb ] (nautical) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | |
Examples: | "port the helm" |
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Related terms: | turn larboard | |
11. | [ verb ] carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, esp. of weapons | |
Examples: | "port a rifle" |
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Related terms: | transport | |
12. | [ verb ] (nautical) bring to port | |
Examples: | "the captain ported the ship at night" |
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13. | [ verb ] transfer data from one computer to another via a cable that links connecting ports | |
Related terms: | transfer interface | |
14. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11000 | |
15. | [ noun ] (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | |
Synonyms: | interface | |
Related terms: | computer_circuit parallel_interface serial_port small_computer_system_interface computer_science | |
Similar spelling: |
porto Porth porte porta Portia Portee Porath |