What does Port mean?
Definitions for Port
pɔrt, poʊrtport
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Port.
Princeton's WordNet
portnoun
a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
port, port winenoun
sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
port, embrasure, portholenoun
an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
larboard, portnoun
the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
interface, portadjective
(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)
port, larboardverb
located on the left side of a ship or aircraft
portverb
put or turn on the left side, of a ship
"port the helm"
portverb
bring to port
"the captain ported the ship at night"
portverb
land at or reach a port
"The ship finally ported"
portverb
turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
"The big ship was slowly porting"
portverb
carry, bear, convey, or bring
"The small canoe could be ported easily"
portverb
carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
"port a rifle"
portverb
drink port
"We were porting all in the club after dinner"
portverb
modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Portnoun
Etymology: port, Fr. portus, Latin.
Her small gondelay her port did make,
And that gay pair issuing on the shore,
Disburden’d her. Fairy Queen, b. ii.I should be still
Peering in maps for ports, and ways and roads. William Shakespeare.The earl of Newcastle seized upon that town; when there was not one port town in England, that avowed their obedience to the king. Edward Hyde, b. viii.
A weather beaten vessel holds
Gladly the port. John Milton.Shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion. Psalm ix. 14.
Descend, and open your uncharged ports. William Shakespeare.
He I accuse,
The city ports by this hath entered. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.O polish’d perturbation! golden care!
That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night; sleep with it now!
Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet,
As he, whose brow with homely biggen bound,
Snores out the watch of night. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.The mind of man hath two ports; the one always frequented by the entrance of manifold vanities; the other desolate and overgrown with grass, by which enter our charitable thoughts and divine contemplations. Walter Raleigh.
From their ivory port the cherubim
Forth issu’d. John Milton.At Portsmouth the Mary Rose, by a little sway of the ship in casting about, her ports being within sixteen inches of the water, was overset and lost. Walter Raleigh.
The linstocks touch, the pond’rous ball expires,
The vig’rous seaman every port hole plies,
And adds his heart to every gun he fires. Dryden.In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,
Whiles her fair face she rears up to the sky,
And to the ground her eyelids low embraceth,
Most goodly temperature ye may descry. Edmund Spenser.Think you much to pay two thousand crowns,
And bear the name and port of gentleman? William Shakespeare.See Godfrey there in purple clad and gold,
His stately port and princely look behold. Edward Fairfax.Their port was more than human, as they stood;
I took it for a fairy vision
Of some gay creatures of the element,
That in the colours of the rainbow live. John Milton.A proud man is so far from making himself great by his haughty and contemptuous port, that he is usually punished with neglect for it. Jeremy Collier, on Pride.
Now lay the line, and measure all thy court,
By inward virtue, not external port;
And find whom justly to prefer above
The man on whom my judgment plac’d my love. Dryden.Thy plumy crest
Nods horrible, with more terrific port
Thou walk’st, and seem’st already in the sight. Philips.To Portverb
To carry in form.
Etymology: porto, Lat. porter, Fr.
Th’ angelick squadron bright
Turn’d fiery red, sharpning in mooned horns
Their phalanx, and began to hem him round
With ported spears. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. iv.
Wikipedia
port
Jeff Jahn (born 1970) is a curator, art critic, artist, historian, blogger and composer based in Portland, Oregon, United States. He coined the phrase declaring Portland "the capital of conscience for the United States," in a Portland Tribune op-ed piece, which was then reiterated in The Wall Street Journal.Jahn's cultural activities in Portland frequently receive attention outside the region from media outlets such as CNN, Art in America, The Art Newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, and ARTnews. Described in the press as "outspoken and provocative", and curatorially as, "a clarion call for Portland's new guard of serious artists—the ones creating a dialog that exceeds the bounds of so-called regional art." He originally took up art criticism when then-Modern Painters editor Karen Wright asked him to contribute to the then-London based magazine in the late 1990s. In 2005, he co-founded PORT, a noted visual art blog. He also lectures on art history or critiques at Portland Art Museum, University of Oregon, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft and Lewis & Clark College. In 2010 he was a juror for the Andy Warhol Art Writing Grants. as well as the 2016 Precipice Fund Awards. From 2002-2008 Jahn served as a board member of the Portland Art Museum's Contemporary Art Council and was elected to the vice president's post for a three-year term from 2005 to 2008. In 2006, he launched the visual arts non-profit Organism, which has hosted the work of artists Jarrett Mitchell Pipilotti Rist, Yoram Wolberger, Weppler & Mahovsky and Hank Willis Thomas. In 2008, he shut down Organism as the scope of his projects fell increasingly outside of its more narrow mission of living artists. One of Jahn's most memorable curatorial projects was a scholarly conference and exhibition dedicated to the work of Donald Judd with Robert Storr as keynote speaker at the University of Oregon's Portland campus. In April 2016 Jahn co-curated Habitats as an extension of his new media art interests for the What Is? Media Conference at the University of Oregon, featuring Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Agatha Haines and Brenna Murphy among many other noted new media artists as well as virtual reality and other large scale installation works.
Webster Dictionary
Portnoun
a dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol
Port
a place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively
Port
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
Portnoun
a passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal
Portnoun
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
Portnoun
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
Portverb
to carry; to bear; to transport
Portverb
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
Portnoun
the manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port
Portnoun
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
Portverb
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
Etymology: [From Oporto, in Portugal, i. e., porto the port, L. portus. See Port harbor.]
Wikidata
Port
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land. Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water, for commercial demand, and for shelter from wind and waves. Ports with deeper water are rarer, but can handle larger, more economical ships. Since ports throughout history handled every kind of traffic, support and storage facilities vary widely, may extend for miles, and dominate the local economy. Some ports have an important military role.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Port
pōrt, n. the larboard or left side of a ship.—v.t. to turn to the left, as the helm.—v.i. to turn to larboard or left. [Ety. dub.]
Port
pōrt, n. martial music on the bagpipes. [Gael.]
Port
pōrt, n. bearing: demeanour: carriage of the body.—v.t. to hold, as a musket, in a slanting direction upward across the body.—ns. Portabil′ity, Port′ableness, the state of being portable.—adj. Port′able, that may be carried: not bulky or heavy.—ns. Port′age, act of carrying: carriage: price of carriage: a space between two rivers, canals, &c., over which goods and boats have to be carried; Port′ance (Spens.), carriage, bearing.—adjs. Por′tāte (her.), in a position as if being carried; Por′tatile, portable; Por′tative, easily carried.—ns. Port′-cray′on, a metallic handle for holding a crayon; Porte′-bonheur′, a charm carried for luck; Porte′-cochère, a carriage entrance leading from the street into a building; Porte′-mon′naie, a small clasped pocket-book for holding money; Port′-fire, a slow-match or match-cord. [Fr.,—L. portāre, to carry.]
Port
pōrt, n. a harbour: a haven or safe station for vessels: a place from which vessels start, and at which they finish their voyages.—n. Port′-ad′miral, the admiral commanding at a naval port.—n.pl. Port′-charg′es, payments which a ship has to pay while in harbour.—n. Port′-ward′en, the officer in charge of a port: a harbour-master.—Port of call, a port where vessels can call for stores or repairs; Port of entry, a port where merchandise is allowed by law to enter.—Free port, a port where no duty has to be paid on landing goods. [A.S. port—L. portus; akin to L. porta, a gate.]
Port
pōrt, n. a gate or entrance, esp. of a walled town: an opening in the side of a ship for light or air: an opening through which guns can be fired: the lid of a porthole: a passage in a machine for oil, steam, &c.—n. Port′age (Shak.), an opening. [Fr. porte—L. porta, gate.]
Port
pōrt, n. a dark-red wine from Oporto, Portugal.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
port
An old Anglo-Saxon word still in full use. It strictly means a place of resort for vessels, adjacent to an emporium of commerce, where cargoes are bought and sold, or laid up in warehouses, and where there are docks for shipping. It is not quite a synonym of harbour, since the latter does not imply traffic. Vessels hail from the port they have quitted, but they are compelled to have the name of the vessel and of the port to which they belong painted on the bow or stern.--Port is also in a legal sense a refuge more or less protected by points and headlands, marked out by limits, and may be resorted to as a place of safety, though there are many ports but rarely entered. The left side of the ship is called port, by admiralty order, in preference to larboard, as less mistakeable in sound for starboard.--To port the helm. So to move the tiller as to carry the rudder to the starboard side of the stern-post.--Bar-port. One which can only be entered when the tide rises sufficiently to afford depth over a bar; this in many cases only occurs at spring-tides.--Close-port. One within the body of a city, as that of Rhodes, Venice, Amsterdam, &c.--Free-port. One open and free of all duties for merchants of all nations to load and unload their vessels, as the ports of Genoa and Leghorn. Also, a term used for a total exemption of duties which any set of merchants enjoy, for goods imported into a state, or those exported of the growth of the country. Such was the privilege the English enjoyed for several years after their discovery of the port of Archangel, and which was taken from them on account of the regicide in 1648.
Editors Contribution
port
A location on a coast.
The port was accessible and functioned effectively.
Submitted by MaryC on March 18, 2020
port
A type of component within a computer, laptop, phone, handheld device, device, equipment, machinery, server or network that allows a connection to a type of computerized technology or device.
Their are a number of USB ports e.g. on a computer, laptop. camera, phone, server etc.
Submitted by MaryC on April 22, 2020
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Etymology and Origins
Port
The native wine of Portugal, shipped from Oporto.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
PORT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Port is ranked #11283 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Port surname appeared 2,800 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Port.
92.1% or 2,580 total occurrences were White.
2.3% or 66 total occurrences were Black.
1.9% or 54 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.9% or 54 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.2% or 35 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Port' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3260
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Port' in Nouns Frequency: #1101
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Port in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Port in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Port in a Sentence
The American meat here has become just as good as the Argentinian meat and you have a better chance of getting fresher meat from here than from there, even if it's fresh, it will travel for 25 or 30 days. While I would love to use Argentinian meat, I know that by the time it goes through a port and comes to my establishment, it won't be the freshest option for my customers.
At that time, we were in the midst of the APEC extravaganza with our new APEC Haus, red carpet, fancy new roads all focused in Port Moresby, and Maseratis, now, we have a new prime minister that travels economy class.
We're limping into port, i can only imagine the kind of damage that happened to the ship.
It was his first cruise and it sounded like she had done a few and she said were on our honeymoon and so were going to do an excursion at every port stop. And I mentioned to them this was my 105th cruise on Royals so we started talking, conversing and I didnt see them in the lounge last night and there were rumors that there were honeymoon couples on White Island and you just showed me one of the news footage with their picture of their wedding and it confirmed that it was them, you never know, your life changes in a moment so, life is short.
The refinery suffered today a new rocket which targeted an empty storage tank at the refinery port, in the refinery's tanks there's a large amount of petrol and diesel which the shelling did not reach ... we fear a catastrophe if there's new shelling.
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- haweAfrikaans
- ميناء, منفذArabic
- liman, portAzerbaijani
- га́вань, портBelarusian
- приста́нище, портBulgarian
- পোর্টBengali
- portuCorsican
- přístav, portské, přístavní městoCzech
- havn, portDanish
- Hafen, Port, Portwein, HafenstadtGerman
- θύρα, πορτό, αριστερό, λιμένας, οίνος Πορτογαλίας, λιμάνιGreek
- havenoEsperanto
- puerto, a babor, vino de OportoSpanish
- sadam, port, portveinEstonian
- بندرگاه, بندرPersian
- satama, liitin, sovitus, portviini, paapuuri, siirtää, satamakaupunki, portti, sovittaminenFinnish
- port, vin de PortoFrench
- portIrish
- port, acarsaid, calaScottish Gaelic
- portoGalician
- נמלHebrew
- पोर्ट, बंदरगाहHindi
- kikötő, kikötővárosHungarian
- նավահանգիստ, միացք, պորտվեյնArmenian
- pelabuhanIndonesian
- portuoIdo
- höfn, tengi, púrtvín, hafnarborg, portvínIcelandic
- porto, città portualeItalian
- 港, ポートJapanese
- ნავსადგური, პორტიGeorgian
- порт, кемежайKazakh
- កំពង់ផែ, កំពង់Khmer
- ರೇವುKannada
- 항구, 港口Korean
- портKyrgyz
- portus, portumLatin
- ທ່າLao
- uostas, uostamiestisLithuanian
- ostas pilsēta, ostaLatvian
- пристаништеMacedonian
- തുറമുഖംMalayalam
- далайн боомтMongolian
- pelabuhanMalay
- သင်္ဘောဆိပ်Burmese
- port, havnNorwegian
- bakboord-, haven, poort, porto, overdragen, havenstad, port, portenDutch
- porte, port, porting, portvin, havnNorwegian
- miasto portowe, lewoburtowy, portPolish
- porta, porto, abertura, vinho do Porto, passagemPortuguese
- portRomansh
- portRomanian
- порт, портвейн, га́вань, портовый городRussian
- portu, poltuSardinian
- luka, лука, vrataSerbo-Croatian
- ගමන්ලීලාවSinhala, Sinhalese
- prístavSlovak
- luka, pristaniščeSlovene
- liman, portAlbanian
- babord, hamn, port, portering, portvin, portera, hamnstad, portning, portaSwedish
- bandari, mabandariSwahili
- றைமுகம்Tamil
- ఓడరేవుTelugu
- порт, бандар, бандаргоҳTajik
- พอร์ตThai
- portTurkmen
- port, daunganTagalog
- şehri, liman, kenti, portTurkish
- портTatar
- порт, га́ваньUkrainian
- بندرگاہ, پورٹUrdu
- port, bandargohUzbek
- 港, cảngVietnamese
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