What's the difference between deportment and port?

Deportment


Definition:

  • (n.) Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
  • (2) The pair’s colleague, Baher Mohamed, is ineligible for deportation as he only holds an Egyptian passport.
  • (3) In the present paper the human pulmonary trophoblastic deportation was studied in 180 sputum specimens from 90 pregnant, parturient and puerperal patients.
  • (4) Those who have committed a crime on British soil can expect to serve their prison sentence, and then be held in a prison-like detention centre with no definite date of release while the UK Border Agency works out how or if they can be deported – a process that can take months, or even years.
  • (5) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
  • (6) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
  • (7) This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico.
  • (8) Eventually I discovered that of around 100 people from my town who were deported, only about 10 survived, only two of whom were children – my sister and me.
  • (9) Instead of ordering deportation of the three absent juveniles, Judge A Ashley Tabaddor agreed with their attorney, Miguel Mexicano, an Esperanza staffer, that the cases should be rescheduled and relocated.
  • (10) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
  • (11) It would have been better if they had killed me.” Naseri was forcibly deported in August 2014, but the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) ruling to send him back was made in December 2012, based on security advice at that time.
  • (12) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
  • (13) Some of those awaiting deportation have been living in Australia for decades.
  • (14) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
  • (15) The case raises serious questions about political interference in deportation and how Britain's human rights obligations can be undermined.
  • (16) Over the past six years, the Home Office has deported 605 Afghans who arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism .
  • (17) But she did tell MPs that the minimum effect of this week's events would be to delay Qatada's deportation for at least another two months while a panel of Strasbourg judges met to decide whether his appeal was made in time.
  • (18) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
  • (19) Theresa May rightly took comfort from the fact that the ruling does not prevent the government from deporting other foreign nationals.
  • (20) Around 40% of all Mexicans deported from the US are repatriated into Tijuana , on Mexico's Pacific coast.

Port


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
  • (2) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
  • (3) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
  • (4) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
  • (5) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
  • (6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
  • (7) Appropriate antimicrobial treatment of systemic infections enables the immunocompromised child to keep the Port-A-Cath in place for a long time.
  • (8) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
  • (9) An analysis has been made of 447 ovarian tumours submitted for histological examination to the Department of Pathology, Port Moresby General Hospital, for the period 1978-1982.
  • (10) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
  • (11) Since Yemeni militia backed by Saudi airstrikes retook the port city from Houthi rebels in July last year , Aden was officially back in government control but largely dependent on other countries for its security.
  • (12) Porec , a port in Istria, is a good place to learn to sail; try the marina (marina-porec@pu.tel.hr) or istra-yachting.com .
  • (13) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.
  • (14) The unions said the government can bypass EU state-aid rules by updating Port Talbot’s blast furnaces and claiming it is investment into research and development, skills, and lowering carbon emissions.
  • (15) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
  • (16) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
  • (17) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
  • (18) The prevalence of penicillin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in black men with acute urethritis at two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Port Elizabeth was assessed during the latter half of 1986.
  • (19) Am I going to be separated from husband and children in airports and ports?
  • (20) If it means calling in the French military to support the police, then so be it.” A Eurotunnel spokesman said: “Eurotunnel reiterates its call to the authorities to provide a solution to the migrant crisis and restore order to the Calais region.” The Port of Dover, which faced heavy disruption all week due to striking ferry workers in France, said it remained open for business.