meaning of port

1. A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
2. A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.
3. 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.
4. A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. To carry; to bear; to transport.
8. 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.
9. The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. port 1. A logical channel or channel endpoint in a communications system. The Transmission Control Protocol and User Datagram Protocol transport layer protocols used on Ethernet use port numbers to distinguish between demultiplex different logical channels on the same network interface on the same computer. Each application program has a unique port number associated with it, defined in /etc/services or the Network Information Service "services" database. Some protocols, e. g. telnet and HTTP which is actually a special form of telnet have default ports specified as above but can use other ports as well. Some port numbers are defined in RFC 1700, divided into well-known ports and registered ports. 2. system, programming> To translate or modify software to run on a different platform, or the results of doing so. The portability of the software determines how easy it is to port. 3. An imperative language descended from Zed from Waterloo Microsystems now Hayes Canada ca. 1979. ["Port Language" document in the Waterloo Port Development System].
13. 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

Related Words

port | port address translation | port arthur | port jackson fig | port jackson heath | port jackson pine | port language | port louis | port moresby | port number | port of call | port of entry | port of spain | port orford cedar | port sudan | port vila | port watcher | port wine | port-access coronary bypass surgery | port-au-prince | port-of-spain | port-royalist | port-wine stain | porta | porta hepatis | portability | portable | portable commodore 64 | portable common loops | portable computer |

Developed & Maintained By Taraprasad.com