port
port is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, verb, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
- verb. A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.
- verb. 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.
- noun. A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To carry; to bear; to transport.
- transitive verb. 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.
- noun. The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. 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.
- noun. (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)
- noun. the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
- noun. an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
- noun. sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
- noun. a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- verb. modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
- verb. drink port
"We were porting all in the club after dinner"
- verb. carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
"port a rifle"
- verb. carry, bear, convey, or bring
"The small canoe could be ported easily"
- verb. turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
"The big ship was slowly porting"
- verb. land at or reach a port
"The ship finally ported"
- verb. bring to port
"the captain ported the ship at night"
- verb. put or turn on the left side, of a ship
"port the helm"
- adjective. located on the left side of a ship or aircraft
Synonyms
interface, larboard, embrasure, porthole
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in port:
Common word forms
ports, portal, ported, porter, portly, porting, portable, portless, portment
Words from these letters
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