port
1. [ noun ] (geography) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
Related terms: geographic_point Chicago San_Francisco Detroit St._Louis Baltimore seaport Houston Savannah Newport Honolulu Seattle New_Orleans Palermo Odessa Dublin Newcastle Acapulco Lisbon Liverpool Messina Veracruz Hong_Kong Vancouver Djibouti Oran Algiers Hobart Antwerp Oslo Reykjavik Tripoli Dubrovnik Victoria Muscat Saint_John Saint_John's Hamilton Natal Recife Bergen Luanda Sao_Paulo Hull Trondheim Paramaribo Bristol Malmo Buenos_Aires port_of_entry outport Oakland Bridgeport Valdez Ayr Glasgow Hannover Goteborg Swansea Helsinki Alexandria Cairo accho Pusan chittagong Monrovia Benghazi Port_Louis Casablanca Lagos brest Asuncion Gdansk chemulpo Doha Castries Pago_Pago Dakar Victoria Freetown Mogadiscio Cape_Town Rostov Tallinn Riga haiphong Baku Barcelona Cadiz Cartagena sousse Bangkok Tunis Mobile Corinth Valparaiso Antofagasta Osaka Jacksonville Hiroshima Thessalonika Nagasaki Mombasa Haifa Shanghai montego_bay Charleston bridgetown Norfolk Bordeaux Cuidad_Bolivar Aden durazzo cartagena aspinwall mazatlan tampico santiago cotonou aarhus Cannes Jaffa aalborg stavanger Conakry maarianhamina salonica brindisi la_spezia thunder_bay Georgetown gand pompey cork galway limerick waterford samarang abadan basia yokohama kisumu Naples calais le_havre marseille nantes banjul Canton tarabulus sur auckland oporto setubal jidda capital_of_somalia durban murmansk dneprodzerzhinsk malaga sevilla port_sudan adalia izmir dubai santos alpena duluth portsmouth newport_news portsmouth maracaibo treaty_port home_port annaba lushun barranquilla massawa patrai belem cherbourg beira free_port cumana al-hudaydah al-mukalla entrepot
2. [ noun ] (food) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
Synonyms: port_wine
Related terms: fortified_wine
3. [ noun ] (arms) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
Synonyms: porthole embrasure
Related terms: opening ship
4. [ noun ] (nautical) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose
Synonyms: larboard
Related terms: starboard side
5. [ verb ] carry, bear, convey, or bring
Examples:

"The small canoe could be ported easily"

Related terms: transport porter
6. [ verb ] (nautical) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
Examples:

"The big ship was slowly porting"

Related terms: turn larboard
7. [ verb ] drink port
Examples:

"We were porting all night in the club"

Related terms: drink
8. [ verb ] (nautical,transportation) land at or reach a port
Examples:

"The ship finally ported"

Related terms: land
9. [ adjective ] on the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft when facing forward
Synonyms: left larboard
Examples:

"the port side"

Related terms: starboard left left
10. [ verb ] (nautical) put or turn on the left side, of a ship
Examples:

"port the helm"

Related terms: turn larboard
11. [ verb ] carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, esp. of weapons
Examples:

"port a rifle"

Related terms: transport
12. [ verb ] (nautical) bring to port
Examples:

"the captain ported the ship at night"

13. [ verb ] transfer data from one computer to another via a cable that links connecting ports
Related terms: transfer interface
14. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11000
15. [ noun ] (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)
Synonyms: interface
Related terms: computer_circuit parallel_interface serial_port small_computer_system_interface computer_science
Similar spelling:   porto
  Porth
  porte
  porta
  Portia
  Portee
  Porath