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port [a]
 
1)located on the left side of a ship or aircraft
    Synonyms :larboard 
    See Also: left 
 
port [n]
 
1)a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
    Synonyms :
    See Also: geographic_point  entrepot  free_port  home_port  outport  point_of_entry  harbor  treaty_port  durazzo  algerian_capital  annaba  oran  angolan_capital  buenos_aires  antofagasta  valparaiso  canton  lushun  shanghai  hong_kong  barranquilla  cartagena  aspinwall  acapulco  mazatlan  tampico  veracruz  santiago  montego_bay  bridgetown  cotonou  aarhus  aalborg  capital_of_djibouti  capital_of_norway  bergen  stavanger  nidaros  malmo  goeteborg  hannover  massawa  capital_of_finland  maarianhamina  corinth  patrai  salonica  accho  haifa  jaffa  naples  messina  brindisi  la_spezia  palermo  dubrovnik  victoria  vancouver  saint_john  saint_john's  hamilton  thunder_bay  hobart  chittagong  antwerp  gand  belem  natal  pernambuco  santos  sao_paulo  hull  liverpool  bristol  newcastle  pompey  capital_of_ireland  cork  galway  limerick  waterford  ayr  glasgow  newport  swansea  alexandria  al_qahira  samarang  abadan  basia  osaka  yokohama  hiroshima  nagasaki  kisumu  mombasa  bordeaux  brest  calais  cannes  cherbourg  le_havre  marseille  nantes  banjul  capital_of_guinea  georgetown  capital_of_iceland  chemulpo  pusan  tarabulus_ash-sham  sur  capital_of_liberia  benghazi  port_louis  casablanca  beira  auckland  lagos  capital_of_oman  asuncion  danzig  capital_of_portugal  oporto  setubal  bida  castries  pago_pago  jed'dah  capital_of_senegal  capital_of_seychelles  capital_of_sierra_leone  capital_of_somalia  cape_town  durban  murmansk  rostov  capital_of_estonia  capital_of_latvia  dneprodzerzhinsk  odesa  baku  barcelona  cadiz  cartagena  malaga  sevilla  port_sudan  capital_of_suriname  bangkok  capital_of_tunisia  sousse  adalia  izmir  dubai  mobile  valdez  oakland  bridgeport  savannah  capital_of_hawaii  chicago  baltimore  alpena  detroit  duluth  gateway_to_the_west  portsmouth  charleston  houston  newport_news  norfolk  portsmouth  cuidad_bolivar  cumana  maracaibo  haiphong  aden  al-hudaydah  al-mukalla 
 
2)sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
    Synonyms :port_wine 
    See Also: fortified_wine 
 
3)an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
    Synonyms :embrasure porthole 
    See Also: opening  ship 
 
4)the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose
    Synonyms :larboard 
    See Also: side  starboard 
 
5)(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)
    Synonyms :interface 
    See Also: computer_circuit  computer_science  parallel_interface  serial_port  scsi 
 
port [v]
 
1)transfer data from one computer to another via a cable that links connecting ports
    Synonyms :
    See Also: transfer  interface 
 
2)put or turn on the left side, of a ship; "port the helm"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: turn  larboard 
 
3)bring to port; "the captain ported the ship at night"
    Synonyms :
    See Also:
 
4)land at or reach a port; "The ship finally ported"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: land 
 
5)turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship; "The big ship was slowly porting"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: turn  larboard 
 
6)carry, bear, convey, or bring; "The small canoe could be ported easily"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: carry  porter  portage 
 
7)carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons; "port a rifle"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: carry 
 
8)drink port; "We were porting all in the club after dinner"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: booze 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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. 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].

(2002-06-19)



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