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port

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"Software transfer"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /pɔːt/Part of speech verb, adjective, nounSorted oprtStarts with PEnds with T2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

Used in a sentence

  • peering in maps for ports and piers and roads
  • More broadly, the port is seen as a litmus test for France; if its most multicultural city can foster vast Muslim enclaves viewed with broad suspicion or hostility by the police, then what hope is there elsewhere?
  • Each eight has four ports and four starboards.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Software transfer4 letters
02Harbor for ships4 letters

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