What is the meaning of PORT. Phrases containing PORT
See meanings and uses of PORT!Slangs & AI meanings
a travelling bag; portmanteau
on the left of the ship or boat when facing forward.
A contest where sailors go out in a foreign port and attempt to locate the least attractive member of the opposite sex they can, and then bring them back to the ship to show their shipmates.
School satchel Possible abbreviation of portmanteau.
Port and brandy is London Cockney rhyming slang for sexually aroused (randy).
At a naval mess dinner, port is served just prior to the loyal toast. Before the toast is made, the port decanters are passed to all diners so they may pour themselves a serving of port. The tradition in a naval mess is for the port to be slid along the table from diner to diner, with the bottle of port never leaving the table as it is passed. Although, the port decanter is slid when passed, it may be lifted when it is poured. Incidentally, the port is always passed to the left.
The port at which a vessel is based.
Port Winston was slang for the mulberry harbour at Arromanches in Normandy, France during theSecond World War.
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a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.
n.
See Portass.
v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
n.
A port warden.
n.
A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
n.
A portrait painter.
n.
A portmanteau.
n.
The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.
v. t.
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
n.
In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town.
v. t.
To portray; to draw.
n.
The art or practice of making portraits.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Portray
n.
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.
n.
A female porter.
n. sing. & pl.
A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.
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Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
imp. & p. p.
of Portray
n.
Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
n.
One who portrays.
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