port

«port» in Mova's school dictionary: a town or place where ships stop to load and unload goods… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (port, ports)

meaning for a pupil

1) A port is a town or place where ships stop to load and unload goods and people. tree →

2) Port is the left side of a ship when you face the front. tree →

3) A port on a computer is a hole where you plug in a cable. tree →

4) Port is a sweet strong wine. tree →

sense in the lessons

a setting: ships arriving and leaving, distance between ports; in geography: big ports trade goods with other countries; in history: explorers sailed from port to port; phrases: «in port», «port of call», «any port in a storm» (any help is welcome in trouble)

examples

• 5 ships left the port. tree →
• 3 ships arrived at the port. tree →
• The ports are 90 km apart. tree →
• How many ships are in the port now? tree →
• Containers are unloaded at the busy port. tree →
• The ship stayed in port during the storm. tree →
• Port is left and starboard is right on a boat. tree →
• Plug the cable into the USB port. tree →
• At last the port was reached. tree →

note

«Arrive» adds, «leave» takes away. Ships in port now = at first + arrived − left. Port (left) and starboard (right); a trick to remember: «port» and «left» both have four letters.

In the corpora

• Ports such as Liverpool, Bristol, Nantes and Lisbon grew rich from this trade.
• Venice held a chain of ports and islands along the Adriatic and in Greece, including Crete and later Cyprus.
• An estuary is a river mouth where fresh water meets the tide, and many great ports grew on them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «port» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.