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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
port1
▶noun a town or city with a harbour or access to navigable water where ships load or unload.
■ a harbour.
– phrases
port of call a place where a ship or person stops on a journey.
port of entry a harbour or airport where customs officers are stationed to oversee passengers and goods entering or leaving a country.
port of call a place where a ship or person stops on a journey.
port of entry a harbour or airport where customs officers are stationed to oversee passengers and goods entering or leaving a country.
– origin OE, from L. portus ‘harbour’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
port2 (also port wine)
▶noun a sweet dark red (occasionally brown or white) fortified wine, originally from Portugal.
– origin shortened form of Oporto, a port in Portugal from which the wine is shipped.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
port3
▶noun the side of a ship or aircraft that is on the left when one is facing forward. The opposite of starboard. ▶verb turn (a ship or its helm) to port.
– origin C16: prob. orig. the side containing an entry port or facing the port (quayside) for loading.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
port4
▶noun
- 1 an opening in the side of a ship for boarding or loading.
■ a porthole.
- 2 an opening for the passage of steam, liquid, or gas.
- 3 (also gun port) an opening in the body of an aircraft or in a wall or armoured vehicle through which a gun may be fired.
- 4 Electronics a socket in a computer network into which a device can be plugged.
- 5 chiefly Scottish a gate or gateway, especially into a walled city.
– origin OE, from L. porta ‘gate’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
port5
▶verb
- 1 Computing transfer (software) from one system or machine to another.
- 2 Military carry (a rifle or other weapon) diagonally across and close to the body with the barrel or blade near the left shoulder.
- 1 Military the position required by an order to port a weapon.
- 2 literary a person's carriage or bearing.
- 3 Computing an instance of porting software.
– origin ME: from OFr. port ‘bearing, gait’, from porter, from L. portare ‘carry’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
port6
▶noun Austral. informal a suitcase or travelling bag.
'port' also found in these Oxford entries:
açai
- acajou
- acara
- -ade
- -ade
- ADN
- -ado
- albacore
- albatross
- albino
- amah
- amok
- anchovy
- anhinga
- ani
- aniline
- apricot
- aracari
- areca palm
- assegai
- auto-da-fé
- avo
- ayah
- banana
- bandanna
- banyan
- bayadère
- beam
- bêche-de-mer
- beeswing
- betel
- bill of health
- binnacle
- Bislama
- blockade
- Blue Peter
- bolas
- bossa nova
- breeze
- brinjal
- Bristol fashion
- brocade
- buffalo
- caatinga
- caboclo
- cachaca
- cachalot
- cachou
- caiman
- caipirinha
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...on the gentleman with their port.
"pot" and "port"
a popular port of call
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Better than nothing vs Any port in a storm
colour "port"
dock/pier/wharf/port/harbour/quay
Harbour and Port
high port
I returned to Canada by land via port of Windsor
Joining port
port / harbour
Port & lemon - Only a drink?
Port Authority?
Port house
port is circulating
Port of London Authority Sports Ground
Port of Los Angeles/Los Angeles Port
Port-a-johns
sailing: "right starboard" and "left port"
Sally port
Telephone w/data port
The IMO has stressed the importance of port States ......
the opposite of port
USB PCI Card with Four External and One Internal Port
wharf/pier/dock/harbor/port
worn down by years of port
"pot" and "port"
a popular port of call
A small port / a little port
Better than nothing vs Any port in a storm
colour "port"
dock/pier/wharf/port/harbour/quay
Harbour and Port
high port
I returned to Canada by land via port of Windsor
Joining port
port / harbour
Port & lemon - Only a drink?
Port Authority?
Port house
port is circulating
Port of London Authority Sports Ground
Port of Los Angeles/Los Angeles Port
Port-a-johns
sailing: "right starboard" and "left port"
Sally port
Telephone w/data port
The IMO has stressed the importance of port States ......
the opposite of port
USB PCI Card with Four External and One Internal Port
wharf/pier/dock/harbor/port
worn down by years of port
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