English words for 'Characteristic of a porter.'
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noun
- (historical) An ostiary; a doorman; a porter.
- (Winchester College) A student office held by a prefect with the duties of keeping order, collecting the vulguses, and ensuring the other students attend class.
- the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
verb
noun
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
noun
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- A breed of poultry.
- (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- a member of the military police in Britain
noun
- The occupation of, or services provided by, a porter (“person in control of the entrance to a building”).
- (uncountable) Porters regarded collectively.
- the transportation of burdens by porters
- (uncountable) The carrying or transportation of goods by a porter (“person who carries luggage and related objects”) or other person.
- (countable, uncountable) The charge for such carrying or transportation.
- the charge for carrying burdens by porters
verb
noun
noun
- A well-bred person.
- a well-bred person
- (loosely) Any purebred horse.
- A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
- Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”).
- a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses
- a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- cause to become
- give back
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
noun
noun
name
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- (rare, countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
- One who ropes goods; a packer.
- (slang) An undercover informer.
- (gaming) Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
- Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
- a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses
- a craftsman who makes ropes
- a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
noun
- (figuratively) A rapacious person.
- (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
- (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
- (British, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
- any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
- a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
- plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
verb
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
- (ambitransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- (ambitransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
- (ambitransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
- (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally, into, within, or out of a prison.
- To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.
- get credit or money by using a bad check
- soar or fly like a kite
- increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently
- fly a kite
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verb
name
adj
adj
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of weather) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- Covered with a rug.
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- Having a rug or rugs.
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- topographically very uneven
verb
noun
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
verb
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- provide with a horse or horses
adj
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- (architecture) Leaning.
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- inactive but capable of becoming active
noun
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.
- (transitive, computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.
- (ergative, telephony) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one service provider to another.
- (transitive, military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lies diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
- (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
- (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
- (nautical) To dock at a port.
- land at or reach a port
- drink port
- turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
- bring to port
- carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
- carry, bear, convey, or bring
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship
- modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
adj
noun
- (also networking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.
- (nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
- (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
- (informal) The portfolio of a model or artist.
- (Queensland) A suitcase or schoolbag.
- (bowls, curling) A narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through.
- (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
- An opening with a valve seat such that a valve can control the flow of fluid through the opening.
- (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
- A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform; the act of this adapting.
- A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
- (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
- An opening where a connection (such as with a pipe) is made.
- Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
- A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
- A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
- (medicine) A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
- An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
- A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
- a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
- (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)
- sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
noun
- A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
- A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
- A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
- A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
- a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
noun
- A male attendant on a great personage.
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- (UK, colloquial) A term of address to a male equal.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
- (historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
verb
noun
- A person of high birth; a nobleman.
- (Ancient Rome) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
- One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
- a member of the aristocracy
- a person of refined upbringing and manners
adj
- Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way.
- Of or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic.
- Characteristic of or appropriate to a person of high birth; classy.
- Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (“fathers”) or senators, or patricians.
- befitting a person of noble origin
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
noun
noun
noun
- An ember.
- Slag from a metal furnace.
- Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
verb
noun
- (historical) An ostiary; a doorman; a porter.
- (Winchester College) A student office held by a prefect with the duties of keeping order, collecting the vulguses, and ensuring the other students attend class.
- the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
noun
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- A breed of poultry.
- (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- a member of the military police in Britain
noun
- The occupation of, or services provided by, a porter (“person in control of the entrance to a building”).
- (uncountable) Porters regarded collectively.
- the transportation of burdens by porters
- (uncountable) The carrying or transportation of goods by a porter (“person who carries luggage and related objects”) or other person.
- (countable, uncountable) The charge for such carrying or transportation.
- the charge for carrying burdens by porters
noun
- A well-bred person.
- a well-bred person
- (loosely) Any purebred horse.
- A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
- Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”).
- a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses
- a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- cause to become
- give back
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
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noun
name
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- (rare, countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
- One who ropes goods; a packer.
- (slang) An undercover informer.
- (gaming) Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
- Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
- a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses
- a craftsman who makes ropes
- a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
noun
- (figuratively) A rapacious person.
- (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
- (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
- (British, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
- any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
- a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
- plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
verb
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
- (ambitransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- (ambitransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
- (ambitransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
- (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally, into, within, or out of a prison.
- To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.
- get credit or money by using a bad check
- soar or fly like a kite
- increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently
- fly a kite
noun
verb
noun
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
verb
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- provide with a horse or horses
noun
noun
noun
- A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
- A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
- A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
- A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
- a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
noun
- A male attendant on a great personage.
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- (UK, colloquial) A term of address to a male equal.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
- (historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
verb
noun
- A person of high birth; a nobleman.
- (Ancient Rome) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
- One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
- a member of the aristocracy
- a person of refined upbringing and manners
adj
- Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way.
- Of or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic.
- Characteristic of or appropriate to a person of high birth; classy.
- Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (“fathers”) or senators, or patricians.
- befitting a person of noble origin
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
noun
noun
noun
- An ember.
- Slag from a metal furnace.
- Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
verb
verb
noun
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.
- (transitive, computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.
- (ergative, telephony) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one service provider to another.
- (transitive, military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lies diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
- (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
- (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
- (nautical) To dock at a port.
- land at or reach a port
- drink port
- turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
- bring to port
- carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
- carry, bear, convey, or bring
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship
- modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
adj
noun
- (also networking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.
- (nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
- (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
- (informal) The portfolio of a model or artist.
- (Queensland) A suitcase or schoolbag.
- (bowls, curling) A narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through.
- (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
- An opening with a valve seat such that a valve can control the flow of fluid through the opening.
- (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
- A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform; the act of this adapting.
- A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
- (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
- An opening where a connection (such as with a pipe) is made.
- Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
- A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
- A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
- (medicine) A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
- An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
- A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
- a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
- (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)
- sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
adj
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of weather) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- Covered with a rug.
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- Having a rug or rugs.
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- topographically very uneven
verb
adj
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- (architecture) Leaning.
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- inactive but capable of becoming active