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   Port

   /pôrt/

   

   noun

   • 1. an opening in the side of a ship for boarding or loading.
   • ▪ a porthole: "the cabin has rectangular ports set just below sheer in each quarter"
   • ▪ 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.
   • ▪ an opening for the passage of steam, liquid, or gas: "loss of fuel from the exhaust port"
   • 2. a socket in a computer network into which a device can be plugged: "a communications port for optional cellular and other wireless modules"
   • 3. a gate or gateway, especially into a walled city. Scottish

   Word Origin Old English (in the sense ‘gateway’), from Latin porta ‘gate’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French porte. The later sense ‘opening in the side of a ship’ led to the general sense ‘aperture’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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