(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.
Syracuse
Definition:
(n.) A red wine of Italy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remsen, C. C. (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.), D. G. Lundgren, and R. A. Slepecky.
(2) (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.), and D. G. Lundgren.
(3) The teenage Clark loved radio, also worked there, and after gaining a business degree from Syracuse University returned to the station.
(4) Changes in ambulatory surgery utilization in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York 1983-88 were identified.
(5) On 1 April, Syracuse university became the largest yet to commit to divestment from all fossil fuel companies, while in May last year Stanford University announced it would be removing its coal investments.
(6) Syracuse University “disinvited” a Pulitzer-winning journalist from speaking because he recently went to Liberia for work.
(7) Oats were cultured on soil amended with municipal sewage sludge from Syracuse, N.Y., or on soil alone (control).
(8) If there’s any doubt that Florida didn’t earn the top seed, a quick look at who else is in the South Region reveals they were up against some real heavyweights with Kansas, Syracuse and UCLA representing the second, third and fourth seeds.
(9) We should believe them," said Professor Robert Thompson, a popular culture expert at Syracuse University.
(10) The message from Walmart, Winnebago and shopping malls from Sacramento to Syracuse is that the economy is in trouble.
(11) The decision by Syracuse University follows a two-year campus campaign.
(12) A graduate of Syracuse University, he was coming towards the end of a coast-to-coast cycle ride across America which he was making with his friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent.
(13) Carolina entered the night having won all five previous March Madness games by at least a 14-point margin, including Saturday’s semi-final stroll past Syracuse, 83-66.
(14) Hindu nationalists want to make India great again.” Hindu nationalism is rooted in the belief that Muslim and British invasions defiled Hindu culture and values, which are seen as synonymous with those of India, writes Syracuse professor Prema Kurien in her book A Place at the Multicultural Table: the Development of an American Hinduism .
(15) The day care program at St. Camillus Nursing Home in Syracuse, New York is described.
(16) The Syracuse strains differentiate one way with respect to endocrine function, and the Roman strains differentiate in the opposite way.
(17) Keep it in the Ground campaign Chancellor Kent Syverud said: “Syracuse has a long record of supporting responsible environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship, and we want to continue that record.
(18) Comparison of the proportions of the graduates in the two SUNY-Syracuse cohorts who chose family practice residencies, and comparisons of the proportions of graduates from other New York state schools and from all U.S. schools who selected family practice residencies during the same nine-year period, indicate that the proportion of students trained during their third year at the Binghamton campus who selected family practice residencies was significantly greater (21%; p less than .001).
(19) In this study, oats were grown on soils which had been amended with sewage sludge from Syracuse, New York.
(20) Moronic irrigation: LA’s new turf war against its sprinkler-happy celebrities Read more In hope of selling screenplays, Corcoran moved to LA in 2011 from Syracuse, New York, where despite plentiful rain residents conserve water, he said.