port

Meaning

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.

Concepts

port

harbour

harbor

haven

larboard

seaport

dock

anchorage

porthole

wharf

landing place

port wine

port side

embrasure

gate

hole

quay

interface

airport

shelter

aperture

vent

postage

city

town

inlet

sink

quayside

ferry

pier

sea port

port of entry

lefthand

to the left

ford

bearing

behavior

behaviour

comportment

conduct

manners

fishing

crenel

crenelle

loophole

aerodrome

airfield

drome

flying field

barrier

floodgate

porta

portal

alien

alienate

assign

bring forward

carry

carry forward

carry over

defer

dislocate

dislodge

displace

dispose

disturb

evacuate

form

manoeuver

move

negociate

offload

pass on

channel

landing site

pin

play

propagate

put over

reassign

redeploy

relocate

opening

sight

slot

reschedule

saltate

shift

submit

take

transfer

transfuse

translocate

transplant

left hand side

apertura

eruption

eye

foramen

gaping place

interstice

pore

port hand

pole pair

valve

harbor entrance

hatchdoor

orifice

seashore

docks

dockside

Tsu

bus station

market

trading center

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔɹt/

Etymology

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.