All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Ports and harbours"
Parent categories: Buildings and structures, Commerce, Nautical, Architecture, Business, Transport, Applied sciences, Art, Economics, Society, Sciences, Culture, Social sciences
Total 44 word senses
- bandari (Noun) [Swahili] port, harbor
- container port (Noun) [English] A port which specialises in handling the loading and unloading of shipping containers onto and from container ships.
- cothon (Noun) [English] An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.
- dry port (Noun) [English] an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to a seaport
- duongan (Noun) [Tagalog] port; wharf; harbor; anchorage
- free port (Noun) [English] A port or other area with relaxed jurisdiction of customs, tax rule or related national regulations.
- harbor (Noun) [English] A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
- harbor gasket (Noun) [English] A line or band used to lash a furled sail when in port.
- harbor master (Noun) [English] Alternative spelling of harbormaster
- harborage (Noun) [English] A place for refuge for a vessel.
- harbormaster (Noun) [English] An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- harbour master (Noun) [English] Alternative spelling of harbormaster
- harbourage (Noun) [English] Alternative form of harborage
- harbourmaster (Noun) [English] Alternative spelling of harbormaster
- home port (Noun) [English] Alternative spelling of homeport
- homeport (Noun) [English] The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- hoverport (Noun) [English] A terminal for hovercraft.
- landing (Noun) [English] A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
- malayang duongan (Noun) [Tagalog] free port
- mandracchio (Noun) [Italian] creek (dock for small boats)
- marina (Noun) [English] A harbour for small boats.
- megaport (Noun) [English] An extremely large port, especially one that combines support for air, naval, and/or terrestrial travel.
- outport (Noun) [English] A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
- pantalan (Noun) [Tagalog] wooden or bamboo pier; wharf; dock; quay
- pelabuhan (Noun) [Indonesian] port
- port (Noun) [English] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- port (Noun) [Polish] port (a place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers)
- port (Noun) [Polish] warehouse
- port authority (Noun) [English] A public authority which operates a port or other transportation infrastructure.
- port of call (Noun) [English] any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies
- port of entry (Noun) [English] A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
- port of registry (Noun) [English] The port where a boat or ship is officially registered, which determines legal consequences such as taxation.
- puerto (Noun) [Ladino] port (harbor; harbour)
- seaport (Noun) [English] A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
- secondary port (Noun) [English] A port whose tidal predictions are not given directly in tide tables, and must be calculated based on the tidal curve of a standard port.
- standard port (Noun) [English] A port whose tidal predictions are given directly in tide tables
- wharf (Noun) [English] An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
- لیمان (Noun) [Ottoman Turkish] estuary, the place where ocean tides and river water merge
- لیمان رئیسی (Noun) [Ottoman Turkish] harbormaster, an official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port
- 外港 (Proper name) [Chinese] Porto Exterior (an area in Northern Macau Peninsula, Macau)
- 岸壁 (Noun) [Japanese] wharf; jetty
- 軍港 (Noun) [Japanese] naval port
- пристанїще (Noun) [Pannonian Rusyn] harbour, haven
- נמל (Noun) [Hebrew] port
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