Definitions for ports

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ports port

Spelling: [pawrt, pohrt]

IPA: /pɔrt, poʊrt/

Ports is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in ports (oprst).

Definitions for ports

noun

1. a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
2. a place along a coast in which ships may take refuge from storms; harbor.
3. Also called port of entry. Law. any place where persons and merchandise are allowed to pass, by water or land, into and out of a country and where customs officers are stationed to inspect or appraise imported goods.
4. a geographical area that forms a harbor:
5. Informal. an airport.
6. the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.
7. any of a class of very sweet wines, mostly dark-red, originally from Portugal.
8. an opening in the side or other exterior part of a ship for admitting air and light or for taking on cargo. Compare porthole (def 1).
9. Machinery. an aperture in the surface of a cylinder, for the passage of steam, air, water, etc.
10. a small aperture in an armored vehicle, aircraft, or fortification through which a gun can be fired or a camera directed.
11. Computers. a physical connection in a computer to which a peripheral device or a transmission line from a remote terminal can be attached. Also called port number. a numerical code that identifies an origin or destination within an IP address:
12. the raised center portion on a bit for horses.
13. Chiefly Scot. a gate or portal, as to a town or fortress.
14. Military. the position of a rifle or other weapon when ported.
15. Digital Technology. a version of an existing video game published for a different console or device.
16. Archaic. manner of bearing oneself; carriage or deportment.

adjective

1. pertaining to or designating port.
2. located on the left side of a vessel or aircraft.

verb (used with object)

1. Military. to carry (a rifle or other weapon) with both hands, in a slanting direction across the front of the body, with the barrel or like part near the left shoulder.
2. Digital Technology. to create a new version of (an application program) to run on a different hardware platform (sometimes followed by over):

verb (used with or without object)

1. to turn or shift to the port, or left, side.

Origin of ports

before 900; Middle English, Old English Latin portus harbor, haven; akin to ford

Examples for ports

Casino resorts thrive in the Bahamas and have a presence in almost every port of call for hundreds of miles.

The two brigs had gone, but there was still a considerable French force in port.

Once the ships that rescued them dock at port, they disembark.

This vessel belonged to Charleston, and it was intended she should return to her own port.

His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, Champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm.

He may perhaps be on the eve of starting away by some of the vessels in the port.

On October 14, Al Hirak held its largest protest ever with more than 100,000 people attending a rally in the port city of Aden.

The decadence of Narbonne as a port is due to natural causes.

Claret for boys, port for men, and brandy for heroes, according to Dr. Johnson, and Hitch went for the heroic.

I was ashore every day while the squadron remained in the port.