(n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Osborne told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "We have got to make some tough decisions, but the priority is healthcare, children's education, early years provision and the big infrastructure developments like Crossrail, Mersey Gateway, the synchrotron, broadband.
(2) Paying over the odds, each was determined to build what they imagined would be the ultimate gateway to the Games.
(3) [Burma] is considered the front line in the battle against artemisinin resistance as it forms a gateway for resistance to spread to the rest of the world,” said Woodrow, who led the Oxford study.
(4) Using land lines, modems and network gateways, many such quite distinct computer programs or databases can be made accessible from a single terminal.
(5) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
(7) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
(8) A principal gateway for integrating the autonomic responses are a small collection of neurons in a region of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL), containing a cluster of neurons of the C1 adrenergic cell group, the C1 area.
(9) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
(10) Together they form the gateway to the vast Oil Crescent, a series of oilfields stretching hundreds of miles through the Sahara containing Africa’s largest reserves.
(11) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
(12) Putting BBC3 online feeds into Hall's desire to ramp up the iPlayer, which he sees not as a useful spin-off for catching up on programmes a viewer might have missed, but a "gateway" which (younger) viewers and listeners will increasingly use to access all of the BBC's programmes.
(13) Treasury insiders said they were already involved in talks with 30 companies over the proposed projects, including proposals for the £600m Mersey Gateway project, a six-lane toll bridge between Widnes and Runcorn.
(14) Kinshasa was the gateway for all the riches of what was then called the Belgian Congo, as rubber, gems, minerals, ivory and exotic woods made their way out of the country.
(15) Each child needs a health assessment and subsequent care.” There are already 4,029 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Britain, most of them in the “gateway” authorities of Kent, Croydon and Hillingdon.
(16) The town itself also marks a strategic gateway connecting Damascus to the Syrian south.
(17) Those "other radical groups," as Oliver dismissively referred to them, must be the more than 60 first nations (aboriginal bands) of British Columbia that have signed a declaration saying "we will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines or other similar tar sands projects to cross our lands, territories and watersheds, or the ocean migration routes of Fraser River salmon."
(18) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(19) The closest rail is the Docklands Light Railway station at Tower Gateway (handy for east London).
(20) It may also become a gateway to other information networks.
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.