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.

Compare port with other words:

port vs. pory

port vs. pott

aport vs. port

bort vs. port

poot vs. port

polt vs. port

ort vs. port

pore vs. port

fort vs. port

port vs. post

poet vs. port

port vs. pout

mort vs. port

port vs. sport

pork vs. port

part vs. port

pert vs. port

port vs. porta

port vs. wort

port vs. sort

port vs. pot

port vs. tort

madeira vs. port

patio vs. port

port vs. portmote

port vs. untrust

havenage vs. port

groundage vs. port

keelage vs. port

blackstrap vs. port

gantry vs. port

port vs. portable

hatch vs. port

port vs. sea

gateway vs. port

aft vs. port

mobile vs. port

port vs. slot

carry vs. port

ferry vs. port

plum vs. port

backplate vs. port

beeswing vs. port

coasting vs. port

hythe vs. port

hole vs. port

harbor vs. port

inducement vs. port

hithe vs. port

barricade vs. port

port vs. sharpness

port vs. tyre

port vs. shipping

port vs. sailing

embargo vs. port

port vs. shipyard

hub vs. port

hoy vs. port

bay vs. port

blockade vs. port

port vs. spoon

port vs. yaw

port vs. syracuse

dockyard vs. port

port vs. sherry

port vs. porto

application vs. port

binary vs. port

build vs. port

platform vs. port

adapt vs. port

port vs. program

deportment vs. port

carriage vs. port

port vs. wick

bearing vs. port

port vs. porter

port vs. portage

port vs. portly

port vs. stone

port vs. porthole

port vs. transport

gate vs. port

embrasure vs. port

helm vs. port

port vs. ship

outport vs. port

port vs. starboard

port vs. seaport

left vs. port

larboard vs. port

haven vs. port

harbour vs. port

port vs. vessel

passenger vs. port

dock vs. port

cargo vs. port

port vs. shelter

coast vs. port