port: Meaning and Definition of

port

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 calledany 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: the largest port on the eastern seaboard.
5. an airport.

port

1. the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.

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

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

port

1. any of a class of very sweet wines, mostly dark-red, originally from Portugal.

port

1. to create a new version of (an application program) to run on a different hardware platform (sometimes fol. by over).

port

1. 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.

1. the position of a rifle or other weapon when ported.
2. manner of bearing oneself; carriage or deportment.

Port.

1. Portugal.
2. Portuguese.