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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#m1)

2) Port is the left side of a ship when you face the front. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#m2)

3) A port on a computer is a hole where you plug in a cable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#m3)

4) Port is a sweet strong wine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x1)
- 3 ships arrived at the port. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x2)
- The ports are 90 km apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x3)
- How many ships are in the port now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x4)
- Containers are unloaded at the busy port. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x5)
- The ship stayed in port during the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x6)
- Port is left and starboard is right on a boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x7)
- Plug the cable into the USB port. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x8)
- At last the port was reached. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/11/)
- [Venice held a chain of ports and islands along the Adriatic and in Greece, including Crete and later Cyprus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/7/)
- [An estuary is a river mouth where fresh water meets the tide, and many great ports grew on them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «port» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/port/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.