1A town or city with a harbor where ships load or unload, especially one where customs officers are stationed.

1. 1.1 A harbor.
   港口，口岸
   the port has miles of docks

   as modifier an abundant water supply and port facilities

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The bank said the project will focus on road repairs, restoring electricity and expanding the port of the East Timor capital Dili.
   • Over the past four years, Namibia has invested significantly in upgrading the port at Walvis Bay and to a lesser extent, at Lüderitz.
   • Proposals to construct a 12-mile causeway between the ports of Barrow and Heysham were this week submitted to Lancaster City and Barrow Borough Councils.
   • The mammoth task will see the girls swim an amazing 21 miles from the port of Folkestone for another British landing on the beaches of Normandy at Cap Gris Nez.
   • We want to paddle about 120 miles from the sugar port of Caibarién, on the central north coast, westward to a tourist resort called Varadero.
   • The special facilities, which could be drained to allow repairs on ships' hulls, have been closed and the heavy machinery dismantled and moved to Liverpool's port.
   • They are now about 120 miles from the key port of San Pedro on the south coast.
   • Our call was in the nearby port facility of Puerto Cones, which served as a launching point for excursions to the nearby Mayan ruins.
   • The wood is transported from the forests to the port of Ardrishaig by road and then south by sea, sometimes via Campbeltown to pick up timber, to Ayr and onto the buyer.
   • Two other rockets were fired from the same warehouse, which is located in the hills on Aqaba's northern edge about five miles from the port.
   • Jenny can remember back to the 1930s, a time when Harbourville was a bustling port.
   • It was true that sea going craft were not so often seen at York staithes as they once were, but many steamers plied from the Humber to the walls of York, and York was still an open port, though 80 miles from the sea.
   • According to the military report, Blanco was killed on September 13 and his body thrown into the sea on the same day 10 miles from the port of San Antonio.
   • The famous five-star resort used to get its internationally renowned shellfish from local fishermen who brought in fresh supplies daily from local ports such as Girvan.
   • A short distance before Banyas, once a Phoenician port, 34 miles south of Latakia, we saw the enormous citadel of Marqab towering atop a mountain.
   • Top priority went to a planned link road between the port of Heysham and the M6 motorway, but that scheme has run into major planning difficulties that have stopped it dead.
   • At least 65 of the electricity transmission towers supplying the port of Umm Qasr and the southern oilfields have been destroyed.
   • It took more than four weeks for the container to reach Iquique, a Chilean port about 150 miles south of Arica.
   • Speaking of Umm Qasr, work continues on the upgrade of the port facilities.
   • The project will focus on six ports including Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock and Fishguard in Pembrokeshire and Rosslare, Waterford and New Ross in South East Ireland.

   Synonyms

   harbour, dock, docks, haven, mooring, jetty, pier, marina
2. 1.2also inland port An inland town or city whose connection to the coast by a river or other body of water enables it to act as a port.
   内陆港口，内陆口岸
   Example sentencesExamples

   • THE WA Department of Planning and Infrastructure will investigate the concept of an inland port and conveyor belt transport system.
   • These networks were based on the ports and market towns of the region.
   • In 1929, when its massive art deco Central Station was built, Buffalo was the country's largest inland port, a hive of industry and enterprise-America's ‘City of Lights’ powered by nearby Niagara Falls.
   • Bolton's development as an inland port began in earnest when the Ministry of Food started its ‘buffer’ depots, to which food could be transported from the dangerous areas of the docks, and kept in comparable safety.
   • Duisburg was once the biggest inland port in Europe.
   • It shows Kingston's riverside in the 1350s, and looking at it wafts me back to the time when Kingston was a thriving inland port with a substantial boat-building industry.
   • A barge transportation system has made Lewiston, Idaho - 450 miles from the Pacific Ocean - into a major inland port.
   • The biggest shock of all was that the photos had been taken less than 50 years ago in Pittsburgh, which at that time was both the largest inland port in America and the biggest producer of iron, steel and coal.
   • The town re-emerged in later Saxon times when, politically, it was part of the Danelaw, and by the late C10 was a flourishing inland port and town.
   • Mr Morrison's dilemma is that there is virtually no space to expand, so the director of our largest inland port finds himself juggling vessels and cargoes, while at the same time adding significantly to the country's trade imbalance.
   • The SPC report claims the development of the inland port is ‘consistent with the Government's environmental objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as stated in the ‘Action for Air’ policy document’.
   • Our two air bases, our munitions depot and inland port made us a top priority for a foe intent on crippling the country's capacities.
   • The development site would have taken in approximately 13 acres of lands in close proximity to the council's 250-acre inland port site.
   • ‘It will copper fasten Portlaoise's position as a key transport node or inland port,’ said Mr Riordan.
   • This interchange will deliver the National Spatial Strategy which positions Laois and Portlaoise as a transport node and inland port.
   • From there the town had access to the ports on Erie, Ontario, and through those, the waterways throughout the kingdom.
   • The city, on the Vistula River, was an important inland port in the Hanseatic League.
   • Goole is the most inland port on the Humber, visited by ocean going vessels and providing a sea, rail, road and canal interchange for several million tonnes of freight a year.
   • Every year some of the 300 tonnes of cargo brought into Montreal's 12-mile inland port gets into the hands of criminal gangs.
   • Situated at the lowest point bridgeable on the Severn, it was long an important inland port.

A strong, sweet, typically dark red fortified wine, originally from Portugal, typically drunk as a dessert wine.

The side of a ship or aircraft that is on the left when one is facing forward.

Turn (a ship or its helm) to port.

1An opening in the side of a ship for boarding or loading.

1. 1.1 A porthole.
   舷窗
   Example sentencesExamples

   • He stared out the port a long time before he heard her come below.
   • Deck hardware and fixed cabin ports are bronze and there are teak louvered doors leading to the cabin.
   • Aside from the companionway, there is no ventilation, windows or ports so if the companionway were to be closed in inclement weather the cabin would get uncomfortable.
2. 1.2 An opening in the body of an aircraft or in a wall or armored vehicle through which a gun may be fired; a gun port.
   射击孔，炮眼，枪眼
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   • We were to learn that these were rocket tubes to be mounted under the wings, between the gear leg and the gun ports.
   • She grabbed up a coil of rope on her way up the ladder and looked out over the side of the boat, then tied one end of the rope around the mainmast and dropped it through the gun port.
   • The infantry enter and leave the vehicle by two rear doors which are provided with firing ports.
   • There are seven ball-swivel firing ports in the vehicle hull, four on the right and three on the left side of the vehicle, as well as ports in the upper hatches of the firing compartment.
   • Crowstep gables and a small gun port in the back wall are a structural reminder of the transition from fortified house to mansion.
   • The guns were set inside of hills, beneath reinforced concrete bomb shields, and concealed behind immense iron firing ports.
   • In a gas gun, the pressure is bled off through a small hole, a gas port, somewhere down the barrel, usually at the end of the magazine.
   • An empty gun port provides similar access to the interior of the wreck.
   • The gas generated when the cartridge is fired flows through the port and along a channel beneath the barrel.
   • Painting was again delayed due to a need to re-do gun port fairings along with some antenna work.
   • The gun port was twice its normal size, with jagged wooden chards to frame the opening.
   • The second portion was the leading edge of the outboard panels and these were all metal and housed the gun ports.
   • He slipped through the space between the gun port and the cannon, and he was in.
   • Their state-of-the-art ships and small boats are equipped to handle grand-scale disasters and to fight fires both in and out of the port.
   • As a dream, the concept can be dated back at least to Leonardo da Vinci, who doodled a round, wheeled, armoured vehicle with cannon firing out of ports.
   • There are two heavy guns on the outer wall that are just inside the outer mouth of the port.
3. 1.3 An opening for the passage of steam, liquid, or gas.
   气门，通道，排气口
   loss of fuel from the exhaust port

   从排气口漏失的燃料。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It is possible to install the provided mounting bracket on some smaller exhaust ports, but this could lead to conflicts between the radiator and cabling.
   • High-pressure CO2 is instantly released through discharge-head ports, creating a force to dislodge the buildup.
   • The short exhaust ports can allow bubbles to rise alongside your mask.
   • Their major breakthrough was relocating the exhaust ports from a peripheral to a lateral position.
   • They don't actually fit through the exhaust port like everyone says they will.
   • In fact, he did not see an exhaust port of any kind - but it might have been on the back of the ship.
   • Indeed, meticulous cleaning of the myriad channels, ports, crevices, and valves is critical.
   • It had two large exhaust ports located on the center of each wing and a main thruster located in the center of the back.
   • Turbos are closely coupled to the exhaust ports.
   • The regulator was having difficulty preventing globs of water entering through the exhaust ports.
   • Russ even mounted six small fans into the vessel's primary dorsal exhaust ports.
   • Sensors in front of the exhaust ports in the dashboard confirmed the effectiveness of the ventilation system.
   • The right wing could only operate at fifty percent, and also had several damaged servomotors, and melted exhaust ports.
   • Steam and smoke emanated from the different ports and hoses that came loose, filling the small area around it with a somewhat vague but visible mist.
   • The exhaust ports of the mechanical ventilators were left open to the room.
   • However, it differs in revised crankshaft and pistons, an increased cylinder capacity and larger intake and exhaust ports.
   • Converters mount directly to the exhaust port of each cylinder head.
   • Exhaust ports are scanned in a similar manner; combustion chambers are scanned from a single fixture position.
   • The zone is an air cavity beneath the swim platform where gas generator exhaust ports are located.
   • The window is kept clean by means of inert gas flow at the window flange, which also carries away the gaseous products through an outlet port at the cavity bottom into a quencher for zinc condensation and separation.

   Synonyms

   aperture, opening, outlet, inlet, socket, vent, passage, porthole, trap, embrasure, door, gate

2Electronics
A socket in a computer network into which a device can be plugged.

3Scottish A gate or gateway, especially into a walled city.

1Computing
with object Transfer (software) from one system or machine to another.

该软件可以移植到IBM RS/6000系统中。

2Military
with object, often in imperative Carry (a rifle or other weapon) diagonally across and close to the body with the barrel or blade near the left shoulder.

科目！检阅——斜持枪！

1Military
The position required by an order to port a rifle or other weapon.

帕克把枪放在了斜持枪位置上。

2literary A person's carriage or bearing.

她有着公主的高傲姿态。

3Computing
A transfer of software from one system or machine to another.

A suitcase or traveling bag.

她打好旅行包，而后走了出去。