English 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 28 word senses
- container port (Noun) A port which specialises in handling the loading and unloading of shipping containers onto and from container ships.
- cothon (Noun) An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.
- dry port (Noun) an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to a seaport
- free port (Noun) A port or other area with relaxed jurisdiction of customs, tax rule or related national regulations.
- harbor (Noun) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
- harbor gasket (Noun) A line or band used to lash a furled sail when in port.
- harbor master (Noun) Alternative spelling of harbormaster
- harborage (Noun) A place for refuge for a vessel.
- harbormaster (Noun) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- harbour master (Noun) Alternative spelling of harbormaster
- harbourage (Noun) Alternative form of harborage
- harbourmaster (Noun) Alternative spelling of harbormaster
- home port (Noun) Alternative spelling of homeport
- homeport (Noun) The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- hoverport (Noun) A terminal for hovercraft.
- landing (Noun) A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
- marina (Noun) A harbour for small boats.
- megaport (Noun) An extremely large port, especially one that combines support for air, naval, and/or terrestrial travel.
- outport (Noun) A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
- port (Noun) A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- port authority (Noun) A public authority which operates a port or other transportation infrastructure.
- port of call (Noun) 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) A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
- port of registry (Noun) The port where a boat or ship is officially registered, which determines legal consequences such as taxation.
- seaport (Noun) A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
- secondary port (Noun) 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) A port whose tidal predictions are given directly in tide tables
- wharf (Noun) A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
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