port

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
2. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
3. The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
4. A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

Adj

Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.

Verb

To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.

Verb

1. To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
2. To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
3. To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.
4. To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
5. To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pɔɹt/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.