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Definition of Port
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Port
A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively. 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. A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. 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. 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. To carry; to bear; to transport. 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. The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. 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. 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. Related Definitions:
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Port Quotations
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca He enters the port with a full sail. Virgil To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. Michel de Montaigne If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Saint Thomas Aquinas |
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Port Translations
port in Afrikaans is hawe port in Danish is havn port in Dutch is haven port in Finnish is satama port in French is connexion port in Italian is porto, coincidenza port in Norwegian is havn port in Portuguese is porto port in Spanish is puerto port in Swedish is hamn, hamnstad, babord |
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