Meaning

21 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

    Hafen

    портport, га́ваньgávanʹ

    портport, га́ваньhávanʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)A town or city containing such a place, a port city.

  3. (uncountable)The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing forward. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.

    Backbord

    ле́вый бортlévyj bort

    the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose

  4. (countable, uncountable)A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

    Each eight has four ports and four starboards.

  5. (Scotland, historical)An entryway or gate.

  6. An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.

    an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

  7. A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.

  8. A narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through.

  9. An opening where a connection (such as with a pipe) is made.

    Port

    портport

  10. An opening with a valve seat such that a valve can control the flow of fluid through the opening.

  11. A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    Port

    портport

    портport

  12. A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

Examples

182 sentences
  1. Could you tell me the way to the port?

    Чи не могли би ви показати мені дорогу до порту?

    deKönnen Sie mir den Weg zum Hafen zeigen?

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  2. He lives in a port town.

    ruОн живёт в портовом городе.

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  3. Their ship is still in port.

    ruИх корабль всё ещё в порту.

    deIhr Schiff liegt noch immer im Hafen.

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  4. They probably saw our ship come into port.

    ruОни, вероятно, видели наш корабль прибывающим в порт.

    deSie haben unser Schiff wahrscheinlich in den Hafen einlaufen sehen.

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  5. Because of the storm, the ship couldn't leave port.

    ruИз-за шторма корабль не смог выйти в море.

    deDes Sturmes wegen konnte das Schiff nicht aus dem Hafen auslaufen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
dock or harbour:
Русский
By meaning 3
dock or harbour:
left-hand side of a vessel when facing the front:
fortified wine:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
dock or harbour:
left-hand side of a vessel when facing the front:
opening where a connection is made:
fortified wine:

Origin

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto

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. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

Clipping of portmanteau.

Clipping of portfolio.

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Forms

plural: ports
Singularport
Pluralports

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through:embrasureporthole
  • sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal:port wine
  • (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):interface
  • the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose:larboard

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

77 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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