Port is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to carry, convey
• turn (a ship or its helm) to port
• transfer (software) from one system or machine to another
• carry or convey
• carry (a rifle or other weapon) diagonally across and close to the body with the barrel or blade near the left shoulder
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• put or turn on the left side, of a ship
• bring to port
• land at or reach a port
• turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
• carry, bear, convey, or bring
• carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
• drink port
• modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
NOUN:
• a town or city with a harbour or access to navigable water where ships load or unload
• a strong, sweet dark red (occasionally brown or white) fortified wine, originally from Portugal, typically drunk as a dessert wine
• the side of a ship or aircraft that is on the left when one is facing forward
• an opening in the side of a ship for boarding or loading.
• a porthole
• an opening in the body of an aircraft or in a wall or armoured vehicle through which a gun may be fired; a gun port.
• an opening for the passage of steam, liquid, or gas
• a socket in a computer network into which a device can be plugged
• a gate or gateway, especially into a walled city.
• the position required by an order to port a weapon
• a transfer of software from one system or machine to another
• a suitcase or travelling bag
• A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
• 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.
• 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.
• a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
• sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
• an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
• the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
• (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)
• a harbour
• a person's carriage or bearing
ADJECTIVE:
• located on the left side of a ship or aircraft
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to shift to the left side
• same as porthole

Words related to PORT

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Words that contain PORT

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How to use PORT in a sentence

• We reached that port on my nineteenth birthday, and by that time I had made up my mind.
• The port of Mogador had to-day a most wild and desolate appearance, which was rendered still more dreary and hideous by a dark tempest sweeping over it.
• Would to God he had died before the ship touched an English port.
• A collision at the entrance of the port, with an English hospital ship that was going to the Dardanelles, injured her stern, carrying away a part of the screw.
• The fog made even more difficult the passage between the reefs that obstruct this port.
• Moreover, on December 17th, 1683, Dryden was appointed collector of customs in the port of London.
• If it be so Farquharson is scarce likely to find the Royalist at anchor when he arrives at the port.
• All these different commodities are collected at Manila, thence to be transported annually in one or more ships to the port of Acapulco.
• At Port Said the travelers left the French steamer to wait for the English ship which was on the way from Southampton.
• They first examined the shores of Western Port, then went to Port Philip Bay and entered the River Yarra.
• By walking from port to starboard, and traversing the short length of the spar deck, she could command a view of the bay and of most parts of the ship.
• The same friend tells me he learnt at Port Blair that there were marriage restrictions on which great stress was laid.
• His soul was up in arms against the man whose evil schemes had led to his presence in Port Said, at a time when many sufferers required his ministrations in Half-Moon Street.
• The words convey an impression of dodging from port to port for short distances, whereas many of the voyages are longer than those of the foreign routes in European waters.
• They seem to be the same class of men as those at Port Essington, but the language is, I think, different.
• Indeed, she was so slow that a smaller vessel that left Tetney haven on the next day reached the same port that we were bound for on the night that we came to our old home.
• I am sending this to Port Said to make sure of not missing you.
• When I came upon deck I found that we had rounded the north end of the island, and were beating up for Port Louis.
• Had they put forth, to maintain themselves at Port Royal, the energy and resource which they exerted to escape from it, they might have laid the cornerstone of a solid colony.
• Henry Brevoort Renwick, noted engineer and expert in patent cases, first inspector of steam vessels for the Port of New York, was a son of James Renwick the scientist.
• We had a good supper, and port wine, of which he then sometimes drank a bottle.

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