What's the difference between port and portable?

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.

Portable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
  • (a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
  • (2) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
  • (3) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
  • (4) An investigation was made of the accuracy of a portable hematocrit measurement device (Stat-Crit) on the infusate of an autologous blood transfusion system.
  • (5) Fifty-nine chronic peritoneal catheters made of polyethylene covered with silastic were used to treat 43 IDDM patients peritoneally for 3-34 mo (mean 14 mo) with portable peristaltic pumps and U40 acidic insulin.
  • (6) Complete data were gathered on 124 pregnancies using a portable real-time ultrasound machine.
  • (7) With the use of tritiated ara-C and this portable system, pharmacologic studies were performed in 8 patients.
  • (8) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
  • (9) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
  • (10) A portable stereocamera linked to a computer has been developed capable of taking photographs in the clinical situation.
  • (11) A portable device equipped with a transmitted infrared photoelectric plethysmograph (TIPP) and compression cuff was designed for indirect estimation of elastic properties of the arteries.
  • (12) The 133Xe wash-out technique, portable CdTe(Cl) detectors and a portable data storage unit were used.
  • (13) A new portable device (measuring 14 X 11 X 5 cm, weighing 600 g) has been developed for recording ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) and R-R intervals on the electrocardiogram at 10 sec intervals throughout a 24 hour period and a computer system for analysis of the 8,640 digital recordings of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR).
  • (14) To further these ambitions, there will be key announcements: a fresh approach to information and advice for families, new rights for carers, a minimum level of care, "portable" needs assessments so people may move without having to be reviewed, extra funding for supported housing and trials of free care at home for people with terminal illness.
  • (15) The Pain-Track system includes portable data loggers carried by the patients, a personal computer with a software package for storage and analysis of the data and a terminal unit to connect the loggers and computer.
  • (16) The stability of fentanyl citrate and bupivacaine hydrochloride in an admixture with 0.9% sodium chloride injection in portable pump reservoirs with or without overwraps was investigated.
  • (17) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
  • (18) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (19) 170 patients were treated with continuous infusion of epirubicin, mitoxantrone, carboplatin or 5-fluorouracil through an implanted venous access port with a portable infusion pump.
  • (20) These elevated levels were observed before the PaO2, the portable chest roentgenograms and the other test results changed following surgery.