(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.
Seaport
Definition:
(n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plans for an airport, a seaport and numerous joint Israeli-Palestinian projects in Gaza were in full swing when Hamas took over in 2006 and violently removed the Palestinian Authority, declaring it would not recognise Israel and proceeding to wage war on its civilians.
(2) The positive rodents were found in Lushoto, Mbulu, Chunya and Monduli districts, as well as at Tanga seaport.
(3) Our position has always been that we’re not in favour of getting this done at the seaport.
(4) • In the Pacific Northwest, young people, Native American tribes, and others are mobilizing to stop the rail transport of huge quantities of Wyoming Powder River Basin coal to Northwest seaports for export to Asia.
(5) It is not just for an airport, but a new tidal barrier to protect London from flooding, a high-speed orbital railway that would roughly follow the path of the M25, and railway connections to seaports and northern cities.
(6) Its responsibility is to enforce criminal law at airports and seaports, ensuring that those facilities are not used for illicit activity.
(7) The demand for a seaport was reportedly agreed in principle, but detailed discussions have been deferred for at least a month.
(8) Field and commensal rodents and shrews were live-trapped from selected areas in each of the six zones of the Republic, namely North-eastern, Eastern, Central-western, South-western, Southern and Seaports.
(9) He turned Singapore from a small seaport into a bustling metropolis, rife with skyscrapers and its own casino.
(10) Now Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who stood alongside Beckham and MLS commissioner Don Gerber in February as the retired star made his long expected formal announcement that he was exercising his right to buy a start-up MLS franchise , has joined those keen to steer him away from the previously preferred seaport site.
(11) Security will be one of the biggest challenges, not least in Balochistan, home of the Gwadar seaport and a decade-old separatist insurgency.
(12) Immigration and border control staff at Australia’s air and seaports have overwhelmingly voted down the government’s latest pay offer and will continue to take industrial action.
(13) The construction of the new airport, together with extensive reclamation of the harbour and expansion of seaport facilities, will create changes in the tidal flow and the ecological system.
(14) In the RSA most cases of psittacosis have resulted from contact with budgerigars and cockatiels, but outbreaks have been associated with imported batches of birds including South American parrots and Australian finches, emphasizing the need for vigilance at seaports.
(15) When it was an important seaport, Trieste was an affluent city, but today most citizens view its decline as irreversible and consequently try to enjoy the present.
(16) The International Association of Airport and Seaport Police is an international organization comprised of law enforcement agencies.
(17) Both venereal disease and cervical cancer mortality are more common in urban areas and around seaports than in the country as a whole.
(18) We felt that planned destruction of power plants, and interference with rail and telephone communications, would tend to scare away capital from the country, make it more difficult for goods from the industrial areas to reach the seaports on schedule, and would in the long run be a heavy drain on the economic life of the country, thus compelling the voters of the country to reconsider their position.
(19) Husni Mansoor arrived in Aden, a seaport city in Yemen, in March.
(20) Since vector capability for malaria does exist on Guam, quarantine procedures at the air and seaports combined with public health disease surveillance and an integrated anopheline control program are recommended for the island.