port

1. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.Examples: "on the port side"Synonyms: larboard, backboard, leftnot-comparable

1. (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.Examples: "Port your helm!"imperativetransitive

2. (nautical) To dock at a port.Examples: "The tall ships will port in Pugwash during its annual Harbourfest Celebrations[…]"; "We have to wait until the ship ports, buddy, and then we can get you the help you need."; "Our cruise ship ported at Mykonos, a small island off the coast of Greece, for an overnight stay."

1. (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.Examples: "And whan he cam to the porte of the pavelon, Sir Palomydes seyde an hyghe, ‘Where art thou, Sir Trystram de Lyones?’"; "Long were it to describe the goodly frame, / And stately port of Castle Joyeous […]."; "Him I accuse / The city ports by this hath enter'd"Scotlandhistorical

2. (medicine) 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.

3. (bowls, curling) A narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through.Synonyms: wick

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1. (transitive) To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.Examples: "Dauid in this Pſalme doth exhoꝛt, to pꝛayſe the Loꝛde alwayes: Foꝛ that he did vs make and poꝛt, and guydes vs all our dayes."; "What one may call River or Freſh-water-Coale, digged out in this Country, at ſuch a diſtance from Severne, that they are eaſily ported by Boat into other Shires."; "A handful of ants meander across each plank, some porting crumblike objects on their back, others apparently just out for a stroll."transitive

2. (transitive, military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lies 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.Examples: "Port arms!"; "[…] the angelic squadron...began to hem him round with ported spears."transitive

3. (transitive, computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.Examples: "By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo."transitive

4. (ergative, telephony) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one service provider to another.Examples: "If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected."ergative

5. (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.US

1. (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.Examples: "Those same with stately grace, and princely port / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace […]"; "the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world"; "For the port, the voice, the smell, the hairdress, were seldom the same, from one day to the next, […]"archaic

2. (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.

3. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform; the act of this adapting.Examples: "Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system."; "The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover."

4. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.