Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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port

UK /pɔːt/ · US /poɹt/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of porto

Forms ports porting ported

  1. noun A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
  2. noun A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
  3. noun (nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing forward. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
  4. noun (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side. “Each eight has four ports and four starboards.”
  5. adjective (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow. “on the port side”
  6. verb (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm. “Port your helm!”
  7. verb (nautical) To dock at a port.
  8. noun (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
  9. noun An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
  10. noun (medicine) A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
  11. noun (bowls, curling) A narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through.
  12. noun An opening where a connection (such as with a pipe) is made.
  13. noun An opening with a valve seat such that a valve can control the flow of fluid through the opening.
  14. noun A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  15. noun A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
  16. verb (transitive) To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.
  17. verb (transitive, military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lies diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command. “Port arms!”
  18. verb (transitive, computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.
  19. verb (ergative, telephony) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one service provider to another.
  20. verb (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

Synonyms

harbour haven harbour city harbour town port city backboard larboard leeboard left wick Porto port wine embrasure porthole interface

Antonyms

starboard

Etymology

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
  2. noun A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.
  3. noun 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. Free port. See under Free.
  4. noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. [Archaic]

Etymology [From Oporto, in Portugal, i. e., the port, L. portus. See Port harbor.]

Etymology [AS. port, L. portus: cf. F. port. See Farm, v., Ford, and 1st, 3d, & 4h Port.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “port”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details