Travel / B2

PORT/pɔːt/

A port is a town with a harbour; also the left side of a ship, or a fortified wine: a container port; port and starboard. Harbour is the water area; airport is for planes. Map the container port in the globalisation unit. Mix-up: pot; report; portray (already in the dictionary). Do not call an inland warehouse a port.

Meaning

A town with a harbour; also the left side of a ship, or a fortified wine.

Examples

• “Map the container port, not a high-street shop, in the globalisation unit.”
• “Turn to port, which is the left-side sense in the seamanship source.”

Good to know

a container / ferry port; in port; port and starboard. Close: harbour. Trap: pot / airport. Geography, news, and travel. Harbour town, ship’s left, or the wine — specify.

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