What's the difference between hythe and port?

Hythe


Definition:

  • (n.) A small haven. See Hithe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further along the south coast, in Folkestone and Hythe, Ukip has again moved from fourth to second, according to the poll, but the Conservatives look set to hold the seat as a challenge from the Lib Dems evaporates.
  • (2) Atkinson had been due to challenge the Conservatives in Folkestone and Hythe on 7 May, but has now been suspended from the party whip and removed as a general election candidate while the party investigates the claims.
  • (3) For example Bruno Gosset recently settled in Hythe, on the coast, about 15 minutes from Ashford.
  • (4) His only other serious option has been Folkestone and Hythe, in Kent.
  • (5) Operation Stack has failed,” said Damian Collins, the MP for Folkestone and Hythe, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
  • (6) The disappearance HYth-L angignaplhaemia with treatment was coindent with a decrease in the number of leukaemic blast cells in the peripheral blood.
  • (7) · Crap Towns, Pan Macmillan, £10 The 50 1 Hull 2 Cumbernauld 3 Morecambe 4 Hythe 5 Winchester 6 Liverpool 7 St Andrews 8 Bexhill-on-Sea 9 Basingstoke 10 Hackney 11 Portsmouth 12 Stockport 13 Crouch End 14 St John's Wood 15 Croydon 16 Islington 17 London 18 Peterborough 19 Wolverhampton 20 Didcot 21 Ascot 22 Brighton 23 Aldeburgh 24 Leiston 25 Ipswich 26 Hayling Island 27 Horsham 28 Mirfield 29 Tintern 30 Peterhead 31 Oxford 32 Dover 33 South Woodham Ferrers 34 Newport 35 Billingham 36 Reading 37 Maghull 38 Huntingdon 39 Hastings 40 Keighley 41 Dagenham 42 Slough 43 Alresford 44 Bridgwater 45 Yate 46 Skelmersdale 47 Barrow-in-Furness 48 Widnes 49 Hinchley Wood 50 St Albans
  • (8) Aspinall stood as a Referendum party candidate in Folkestone and Hythe at the last general election, polling 4,188 votes against Michael Howard and also donated money to Neil Hamilton to fight his libel case.
  • (9) This could deliver schemes such as Uckfield-Lewes, Bristol-Portishead, Skipton-Colne, Statford-upon-Avon-Honeybourne, Southampton-Hythe, Bere Alston-Okehampton and at least a score of other long-desired reopenings, each of which would generate significant new journey opportunities around the country and be obvious vote-winners in the constituencies affected.
  • (10) • Maps: OS Landranger 179 (Canterbury & E Kent) or OS Explorer 138 (Dover, Folkestone & Hythe) Goring and Streatley to Cholsey, Berkshire Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Sarah Saunders This is a glorious walk from Goring and Streatley station, embracing wide stretches of the Thames, open meadows, woody paths and a beautiful Brunel railway bridge.
  • (11) The former home secretary, Michael Howard, is given space to argue that his Hythe constituents live in "the jewel of Kent" rather than a place which "makes nearby Folkestone look like Las Vegas".
  • (12) Then there's Damian Collins – formerly of Lexington Communications – who took Michael Howard's safe seat of Folkestone and Hythe.
  • (13) Alison Chapman had come from Hythe with her sons extremely well-prepared – shovels, rake and plastic sifters, but then she did know about gold, being a dealer on ITV's show Dickinson's Real Deal.
  • (14) The 38-year-old, from Hythe in Kent – travelling with more than a dozen people, including her 14-year-old twin daughters, to the Mounted Games European Championship – set out early on Saturday and finally arrived in Calais after 4pm.
  • (15) A spokesman said: “The allegation is being reviewed and the investigation is ongoing.” The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage , said the claims “couldn’t be worse” for Atkinson, who is the party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Folkestone and Hythe.
  • (16) Signal failure … a woman struggles to make a call in Hythe, Kent.
  • (17) Detectives are investigating an allegation of fraud after the suspension of Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson, its candidate in Folkestone and Hythe, over claims that a member of staff attempted to overcharge EU expenses.
  • (18) Clinical experience during one-lung anesthesia using a new right-sided endobronchial tube (Portex Ltd, Hythe, Kent, UK) is reported in 148 patients with cancer of the left lung.
  • (19) OS Map: Explorer 138: Dover, Folkestone & Hythe Keswick to Friar's Crag Cumbria Catbells and Causey Pike reflected in the Derwent Water from Friar's Crag, Lake District.
  • (20) The Ukip leader told LBC on Friday that the political future of Janice Atkinson, who is an MEP and the party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Folkestone and Hythe, hung in the balance after a sting by the Sun newspaper.

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.

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