(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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Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(2) Kenyon then moved to Chelsea, where he and Mendes negotiated Mourinho’s hiring as the new manager, the signings of Carvalho and Ferreira to join him from Porto, and Tiago Mendes, from Benfica.
(3) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
(4) The emergency operation which has effectively achieved the stopping of the esophageal bleeding has been the porto-azygos disconnection, which allows later a portosystemic shunt with a greater probability of success.
(5) In order to check this hypothesis, the essential amino acid (EAA) profiles of digesta collected at 8 intervals during a 24-h in vitro enzymatic proteolysis of casein and rapeseed proteins were compared to the pattern of appearance of dietary EAA in portal vein of pigs fed the same proteins, determined at each hour over a 8-h postprandial period by coupling blood flow rate with porto-arterial differences in plasma EAA concentrations.
(6) The authors studied a group of in-patients from the Psychiatric Unit of the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, who were hospitalized during 1985 to 1989.
(7) They defended the league title the following season and also added the Champions League, a remarkable achievement in the modern era for a team of Porto’s stature.
(8) I know [Lahoz] is a great professional.” The Porto manager was reluctant, too, to discuss his opposite number, who claimed a Uefa Cup and Champions League during his time at the club, “other than to say Mr Mourinho is a wonderful coach and did great things at Porto.
(9) The cysticercoids are found up against the outside of the gut of Myriapode, Oxydesmus granulosus, from Porto Novo (Dahomey).
(10) They worked together at Porto, Chelsea and Internazionale but the relationship has soured.
(11) Mortality among 20 patients with esophageal varices was 35%, although all five survived who had porto-caval shunts.
(12) Porto-systemic venous shunting, an apparently logical approach to management, would probably have aggravated the problem.
(13) In order to have a mean of the stage of the disease, 37 patients were subdivided by the extend or their porto-caval collateral circulation and further 8 patients were investigated having bleeding from esophageal varices.
(14) It was the first time in a decade, since he took the reigns at Porto as a young gun desperate to make a big noise, that he endured a term without a trophy (bar the Spanish Super Cup).
(15) Analysis of this case and the 13 other similar cases with associated Budd-Chiari syndrome and Behçet's syndrome found in the literature showed that hepatic veins thrombosis: a) is often due to inferior vena caval thrombosis or membranous obstruction; b) has a high spontaneous mortality rate by acute liver failure; c) remains a potential indication for porto-systemic shunt, as are other causes of Budd-Chiari syndrome.
(16) Portal and porto-arterial ammonia differences were significantly decreased after lactulose (-20%) and neomycin (-35%) treatment.
(17) But in July I am back.” Asked when he needed to sign a contract by, the London-based Mourinho responded: “June 30 – that’s fine.” Manchester United have not denied months of reports that Van Gaal will leave Old Trafford at the end of the season and be replaced by Mourinho, who coached Real Madrid, Internazional and Porto around his two stints at Chelsea.
(18) The hemoglobin Porto Alegre (HbPA) disulfide polymer dodecamer and the HbPA, HbA disulfide polymer octamer subunit dissociation by NaCl was studied by measuring the osmotic pressure of CO-hemoglobin solutions at pH = 6.9 and 20 degrees C. The dissociation equilibrium constants were evaluated from the osmotic pressure data.
(19) Maicon did his best to hack it away but his clearance was from behind the line with the additional assistant referee, Baris Simsek, immediately indicating Porto had been breached.
(20) Porto Alegre, meanwhile, is located in the southern region of the country, where temperatures are much cooler.