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port in English:

1. harbour harbour


He is not the brightest light in the harbour.
an area of water near the land where it is safe for boats to stay. A port is a harbour where passengers and goods can be taken on and off
The town has a splendid natural harbour.
The Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth harbour.
Rotterdam is a harbour city.
It's a harbour, not a village.
The ship is coming into harbour.
They went down to the harbour to see if they had fresh fish.
We know that there is no place for terrorists in a democracy, but nor is there a place for those who encourage, harbour and assist terrorists.
Boats are anchor in the harbour.
The children waved to the people on the boat as it sailed out of the harbour.
All the wards in the new hospital have a view of the harbour, so patients can watch the boats coming in.
harboured international ambitions
The definition of a harbour is a place providing safety or shelter, or a protected area in the water for anchoring boats.
The lost fishing boat made a safe return to harbour.

2. port port


The ships reached port.
They used to go for a drive to Nagoya Port on weekends.
Statek wszedł do portu po miesiącach żeglowania.
How long does it take to get to your office from the port?
I always confuse which side is port and which starboard.
The Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The fishing boat that had been missing returned to its port safely.
The country's foreign trade totally depends on this port.
A sailor frequently has no time to get his sea legs after leaving port before a battle starts.
A whistle blew, and the boat slowly began to pull out of port.
Extra special treatment is imperative to get the vessel through government red tape, so that she can leave port on time.
Hamburg is Germany's largest port and also the third-largest port in Europe.
a seaport
Any port in a storm.

English word "port"(port) occurs in sets:

Lesson 117, words

3. left on a ship left on a ship



4. carry carry


Wires carry electricity.
The good thing about this electronic dictionary is that it's easy to carry.
The work wasn't finished at 11:00 p.m. Friday, so they decided to carry it over to the following Monday.
We carry out treatments like whitening. We also do tobacco stain removal and other cleaning procedures.
If you can't lift your backpack, then you can't carry it!
I carry an umbrella everywhere. It rains a lot.
The spaceships will carry the first interstellar travellers to Alpha Centauri at a tenth the speed of light.
My aim is to learn enough English so I don't need to carry a dictionary with me when I travel.
I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
The "subject" is the person or object to carry out the action in the sentence. Transformed to Japanese it would be the part that end in "wa" or "ga".
Carry on working while I am away.
Let us go together. We can swim across the river, carry off the bear cubs, take them to the house on the mountain, and together find happiness.
Ships carry lifeboats so that the crew can escape.
Throat and nose membranes hurt by dry air allow cold viruses to enter more easily. It is important to carry out sensible counter plans against the cold with heaters and against the dryness with humidifiers.
His boosterism makes it sound wonderful but I wonder if he understands how hard it's going to be to actually carry out.