port : Idioms & Phrases

• (Nav.), a scuttle or porthole in a ship to admit air.

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• etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc.

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• (Naut.), a porthole or opening in the bow through which hawsers, mooring or bridle cables, etc., are passed.

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• noun garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles
  carport.
  

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• (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired.

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Cinque" Ports`

Etymology

Cinque + port.

Definitions

1. (Eng. Hist.) Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.

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• . See Exhaust pipe and Exhaust port, under Exhaust, a.

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• (Hydrography), a datum on which the tides are computed at the given port, obtained by observation, viz., the interval between the moon's passage over the meridian and the time of high water at the port, on the days of new and full moon.

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• (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.

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• noun an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties
  free zone.
  
• noun a port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels
  

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• . (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.

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• (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.

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Half"-port` noun

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1. (Naut.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.

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• the round hole in a vessel's counter through which the rudderstock passes.

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• noun the port from which a ship originates of where it is registered
  

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• a pipe, passageway, or valve, for leading or admitting a fluid to a receiver, as steam to an engine cylinder, or water to a pump.

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• noun an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously
  parallel interface.
  

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• a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.

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• noun a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
  Lushun.
  
• noun a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese
  

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• (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale.
• . (Naut,) (a) A boom . See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3. (b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port.

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• (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor.

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• noun Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
  rusty rig; Botany Bay fig; Ficus rubiginosa; little-leaf fig.
  

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• noun small shrub of southern and western Australia having pinkish to rosy purple tubular flowers
  Epacris purpurascens.
  

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• noun Australian cypress pine having globular cones
  Callitris cupressiformis.
  

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• (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel.

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• noun capital and chief port of Mauritius; located on the northwestern coast of the island
  

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• noun the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea
  capital of Papua New Guinea.
  

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• noun any port where a ship stops except its home port
  

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• noun a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise
  point of entry.
  

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• a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise.

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• noun the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad
  capital of Trinidad and Tobago; Port of Spain.
  

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• noun the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree
  
• noun large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet
  Oregon cedar; Chamaecyparis lawsoniana; Lawson's cedar; Lawson's cypress.
  

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• noun port city in Sudan on the Red Sea
  

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• (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port.

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• noun capital of Vanuatu
  Vila; capital of Vanuatu.
  

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• the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

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• noun a watchman on a wharf
  portwatcher.
  

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• noun sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
  port.
  

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• noun heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Haiti
  Haitian capital.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad
  capital of Trinidad and Tobago; Port of Spain.
  

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Port-roy"al*ist noun

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1. (Eccl. Hist.) One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

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• noun a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple
  nevus flammeus.
  

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• (Naut.), a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port.

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• . (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie . (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad.

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Sea" port` noun

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1. A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

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• noun an interface (commonly used for modems and mice and some printers) that transmits data a bit at a time
  

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• an opening for steam to pass through, as from the steam chest into the cylinder.

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• (Steam Engine), the ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.

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• (Naut.), a port, or opening, in the stern of a ship.

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• noun a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty
  

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