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    1. Instead she stood at the bit of rail on the port side of the companionway, leaning on the cabin roof


    2. Cockroaches have are hiding (attic, inside walls, drawers, cabinet, car port, as good a memory as ants


    3. She had to share a cabin to afford passage to the next port, but the man she picked was more of Kulai's build than Herndon's or Jorma's


    4. next as yet undecided port of call


    5. Her table was on a boat in the port of old Marseilles just this morning for instance


    6. port slum and, when the coin for wine evaporated, he might work for a few nights as a


    7. Tig couldn’t help things by being at the terminal, so he shared Parker’s porthole and watched the wreckage pass by on the junk’s port side


    8. He saw them against the foreign stars before they veered to port in formation and were suddenly lost from view


    9. He rented a shabby flat in the port slum and, when the coin for wine evaporated, he might work for a few nights as a pot-washer or something equally lonely


    10. That left just the two of them at the port corner of the bow

    11. He ran to the starboard rail and flung that ship's pin from his only previous voyage as far as he could into the river, then ran back to the port side and vaulted over the rail


    12. chilling them to their port wine w’iskers


    13. But down around the port, came a more thriving version of life in shiny, tiled kitchens, and white lace curtains flapping a gentle hint of an incoming breeze that would help to keep the flies at bay


    14. In those days she was involved in all the comings and goings around the port and nothing moved without her say-so


    15. It leads all the way from the port at Bristol to the north


    16. The Princess of Stephanos took its chance and somehow cleared the rain and passed into the lagoon, all hands on the port side staring at the yacht


    17. ‘Do I need to do that?’ I asked watching as he plugs the little gadget into a port in the side of the machine and showing me where it appears on the menu


    18. effect of the port and lemon


    19. “I just wanted you to know I’m thinking of getting off at the next port


    20. A sighting in a Spanish port and a copy of a ship's register, the Valentin, bound for Bideford, some days ago

    21. The beautiful voice and delivery of song by Miss Kaitlyn, the tempest, and the Port of Liverpool with descriptions of its environs were always favorite passages


    22. pulled into port and a young boy was busy lighting torches


    23. and headed for the Port l’Evesque on the Ile de Cite,


    24. Today he remembered of a channel that lead to discontinued student volumes that finally lead to an old diagnostics port he had resurrected


    25. “My brother lives in a town called Port Hedland in the north of Western Australia


    26. Exporting the ore requires a port: Port Hedland


    27. Port Hedland – named after its founder, Peter Hedland in 1863, now it supports a population of 14,000 and is the highest tonnage port in Australia


    28. “Today we fly to Los Angeles und drive up to Mojave Air and Space Port


    29. “We need the equipment shipped to Port Hedland in Australia


    30. It is essential that the equipment arrive on dry land in Port Hedland on March 7th! There should be enough diamonds to cover the cost

    31. Bruce drove it leading the convoy of three road trains that had convened just outside Port Hedland


    32. In two minutes he had plotted a course to Port Hedland avoiding detection especially as most radar sites were not operational this time


    33. The lights of Port Hedland twinkled faintly then faded as the dawn approached


    34. Port Hedland weather shows winds 50 kilometres per hour gusting to 75 und expected to decrease during the day


    35. They reached the sealed road and slipped past Marble Bar at 02:57 and reached the 138 highway back to Port Hedland


    36. Edgar ran to the deck and introduced himself to the workers stating that he had been ordered to look after securing the Angula load on the port side of the ship


    37. As long as she kept her thoughts her own and didn't allow them out to result in any interaction with the virtual world by hand, voice, or urinal secretion, the entity could not know what she was thinking about it unless it had a diagnostic port into her soul


    38. If it was that omnipotent, she could only play anyway, so she might as well proceed as if there was not a diagnostic port in her soul


    39. She spent her duty hours that day trying to think of a plan to use the mail channel to get control of the avatar thru the diagnostic port, but proved it would not be fast enough at this distance


    40. With the diagnostic port she could put ideas into the avatar's own mind and control it the way she did during its design and testing

    41. She would have to wait for them to be light-seconds apart again before there was enough bandwidth to use the diagnostic port


    42. She did not think the avatar itself knew about the diagnostic port


    43. than those of common labourers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages


    44. those different places ; and the rate of the port to and from which the greatest number sail, that


    45. is, the port of London, regulates that of all the rest


    46. the sailors who sail from the port of London, seldom earn above three or four shillings a


    47. month more than those who sail from the port of Leith, and the difference is frequently not so


    48. The time was also fast approaching when the diagnostic port might be effective


    49. "The avatar knows about the diagnostic port! It was transmitting to it and tried to take control of me


    50. Then port and finally wine














































    1. ported himself and Victor into his private


    2. ported me into that bedroom


    3. ported there while they finished their last


    4. ported to that soft bed


    5. ported without a hitch, the next message


    6. ported into the Crystal City - that sat like a


    7. ported, with you in my arms, we were brought to the ashy remains of our old


    8. But Cinder had already ported herself to the other side of the door, neglecting


    9. Nonetheless, she ported to the other side


    10. swathe of black, she ported, reappearing to block his path

    11. punched, ported to dodge an attack and repeated the pattern; Sven had a


    12. ported back to the tower


    13. ported white women as worthy of affirmative-action status because


    14. And even titles that seemed reliant on the touch screen (GTA: Chinatown Wars, Knights in the Nightmare), eventually were ported to the PSP without any control issues


    15. consulting work, Gilmore had ported Emacs over to SunOS, the


    16. Since it was written in a high level language, when that language was ported to a new machine architecture UNIX was also able to be ported


    17. In the late 1960s through the late 1970s, several hardware capabilities evolved that allowed similar or ported software to run on more than one system


    18. Mark Lesser at Rockwell International Microelectronics Division ported the code to a calculator chip


    19. Metal Gear was ported to the NES shortly after


    20. An increasing number of players would wait for popular arcade games to be ported to consoles rather than going out

    21. He offered James a place to stay which James politely refused, and asked where the ships ported, instead


    22. the VAX series of computers, the USER 11 product was ported


    23. that cannot be ported to another jurisdiction


    24. ported the accident after you left


    25. ported leaving the scene of the accident after walking down the hill


    26. You have made my mind the ported temple of traders and traitors


    27. They were, says Mr Stephen, and the end was that the men of the island seeing no help was toward, as the ungrate women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft, loaded themselves and their bundles of chattels on shipboard, set all masts erect, manned the yards, sprang their luff, heaved to, spread three sheets in the wind, put her head between wind and water, weighed anchor, ported her helm, ran up the jolly Roger, gave three times three, let the bullgine run, pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of America


    28. In 1975, one of the original developers of Unix, Ken Thompson, took a sabbatical at the University of California at Berkeley, and while there, he ported his current Unix version to a PDP-11/70 system


    29. At the critical moment, when it appeared the lugger was about to cut him down, the pilot suddenly ported helm, and ran his boat under the lugger's side


    30. "From a friend," and the pilot ported helm

    1. He took off without thanking Cinder for porting him out of prison, thinking of


    2. It was only when they looked skyward that they saw her reason for porting


    3. porting BSD over to the Digital Equipment Corporation's


    4. triggered a porting spree, as Torvalds and his collaborators


    5. Intel introduced the 8086 as a cost effective way of porting software from the 8080 lines, and succeeded in winning a lot of business on that premise


    6. porting activities would this need?


    1. From the four places on her torso where the artificial, machine limbs would have attached had they been represented, what looked like endless colored veins extended out from the neural interface ports, representing the connections between the breaching ship’s systems and the neural processors set in Chief Horcheese’s torso


    2. "The ports to the actual neural interface processors are located on the torso side of the connection


    3. The places on her torso where the artificial limbs attached were pink ovals, lumpy with contracted fibers and at the center of it all was the titanium bone and the expected set of ports for the neural interface processors that did the fantastically complicated and nuanced task of translating between machine language and the language of the human neurological system


    4. "Gonna need some steady hands," Parker said, staring into the ports on the Chief’s left shoulder


    5. He said, "Me and my partner have 184 total ports to rig," he said


    6. Three hours later, Chief Evelyn Horcheese sat strapped into the command chair with 184 control conduits fanning out from the interface ports at her shoulders and pelvis


    7. are a lot of pretty faces in the many ports of the


    8. There were arguments about what prices would be paid in various ports


    9. ports upriver later that evening


    10. A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce, and which admits the vessel of foreign nations into one or two of its ports only, cannot transact the same quantity of business which it might do with different laws and institutions

    11. different ports of Great Britain, is more nearly upon a level than that of any other workmen in


    12. In 1562, therefore, by the 5th of Elizabeth, the exportation of wheat was allowed from certain ports, whenever the price of the quarter should not exceed ten shillings, containing nearly the same quantity of silver as the like nominal sum does at present


    13. At present, the value of the tea annually imported by the English East India company, for the use of their own countrymen, amounts to more than a million and a half a year; and even this is not enough; a great deal more being constantly smuggled into the country from the ports of Holland, from Gottenburgh in Sweden, and from the coast of France, too, as long as the French East India company was in prosperity


    14. The number of sailors and shipping which any particular capital can employ, does not depend upon the nature of the trade, but partly upon the bulk of the goods, in proportion to their value, and partly upon the distance of the ports between which they are to be carried; chiefly upon the former of those two circumstances


    15. The coal trade from Newcastle to London, for example, employs more shipping than all the carrying trade of England, though the ports are at no great distance


    16. The trade which is carried on in British bottoms between the different ports of the Mediterranean, and some trade of the same kind carried on by British merchants between the different ports of India, make, perhaps, the principal branches of what is properly the carrying trade of Great Britain


    17. More than two-thirds of this expense were laid out in distant countries; in Germany, Portugal, America, in the ports of the Mediterranean, in the East and West Indies


    18. This occasioned, what it always occasions, a general over-trading in all the ports of Great Britain; and this again occasioned the usual complaint of the scarcity of money, which always follows over-trading


    19. enemies will have to guess which of many ports we’ve reached


    20. Every town and country, on the contrary, in proportion as they have opened their ports to all nations, instead of being ruined by this free trade, as the principles of the commercial system would lead us to expect, have been enriched by it

    21. Though there are in Europe indeed, a few towns which, in same respects, deserve the name of free ports, there is no country which does so


    22. This liberty, indeed, extends to no more than twenty-five of the different ports of Great Britain


    23. It was upon this silly notion, however, that England could not subsist without the Portugal trade, that, towards the end of the late war, France and Spain, without pretending either offence or provocation, required the king of Portugal to exclude all British ships from his ports, and, for the security of this exclusion, to receive into them French or Spanish garrisons


    24. In the course of the seventeenth century, therefore, the English, French, Dutch, Danes, and Swedes, all the great nations who had any ports upon the ocean, attempted to make some settlements in the new world


    25. Other nations leave the trade of their colonies free to all their subjects, who may carry it on from all the different ports of the mother country, and who have occasion for no other license than the common despatches of the custom-house


    26. But since the fall of the power of Portugal, no European nation has claimed the exclusive right of sailing in the Indian seas, of which the principal ports are now open to the ships of all European nations


    27. No private merchant, it has been said, could well have capital sufficient to maintain factors and agents in the different ports of the East Indies, in order to provide goods for the ships which he might occasionally send thither; and yet, unless he was able to do this, the difficulty of finding a cargo might frequently make his ships lose the season for returning; and the expense of so long a delay would not only eat up the whole profit of the adventure, but frequently occasion a very considerable loss


    28. There was exercise equipment, and a panoply of entertainment ports


    29. It was common knowledge that roadways and airway ports were thoroughly screened


    30. 18, reducing the fine for admission to twenty pounds for all persons, without any distinction of ages, or any restriction, either to mere merchants, or to the freemen of London; and granting to all such persons the liberty of exporting, from all the ports of Great Britain, to any port in Turkey, all British goods, of which the exportation was not prohibited, upon paying both the general duties of customs, and the particular duties assessed for defraying the necessary expenses of the company ; and submitting, at the same time, to the lawful authority of the British ambassador and consuls resident in Turkey, and to the bye-laws of the company duly enacted

    31. We pulled in here and Frank informed us that it was one of the busiest of the French river ports and we could see a lot of the ocean going vessels already building up here


    32. had no capability to build warships on their own as the North had sufficient control of all the ports and shipping lanes in the


    33. Roman stopped at a number of major ports and smaller islands as a matter of routine


    34. of the larger ports, offered a needed break to the men on


    35. But the perquisites of custom-house officers are everywhere much greater than their salaries ; at some ports more than double or triple those salaries


    36. friends at sea and on land, while visiting at ports of call


    37. They also made a number of stops at ports of call near the


    38. the ports and being with a governor at another


    39. It was and still is one of the major ports in Brazil and was equipped to make the repairs on the CSS Florida as well as provide rest and relaxation for the crewmembers on board the


    40. various ports along the way

    41. If a union with the colonies were to take place, those commodities might be taxed, either before they go out of the hands of the manufacturer or grower ; or, if this mode of taxation did not suit the circumstances of those persons, they might be deposited in public warehouses, both at the place of manufacture, and at all the different ports of the empire, to which they might afterwards be transported, to remain there, under the joint custody of the owner and the revenue officer, till such time as they should be delivered out, either to the consumer, to the merchant-retailer for home consumption, or to the merchant-exporter; the tax not to be advanced till such delivery


    42. with Madagascar and other ports in Africa by supplying seafood


    43. enjoyed the rather pleasant weather and the frequent stopovers at ports of call in Mexico as well as Southern California


    44. whaling friends from New Bedford and other ports in New


    45. “We know he is doing it but it is catching him he has other people working for him and sends most of the stuff off in secret to an accomplice at one of the ports for shipment to Blighty


    46. Pacific Squadron located ships of war at ports where they were


    47. The most important of these ports in terms of military protection were Acapulco, Callao, and Valparaiso


    48. All of these ports were


    49. The Milo also gammed with whaleships from other ports including the Covington of Rhode Island, the Hae Hawaii and


    50. destination ports of the letter













































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    Synonyms for "port"

    interface port larboard embrasure porthole port wine harbour haven breakwater harbourage anchorage

    "port" definitions

    a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country


    sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal


    an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through


    the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose


    (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)


    put or turn on the left side, of a ship


    bring to port


    land at or reach a port


    turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship


    carry, bear, convey, or bring


    carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons


    drink port


    modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform


    located on the left side of a ship or aircraft