Berth

Definitions: Berth

Berth

Noun

1. A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury".

2. A place where a craft can be made fast.

3. A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers.

Verb

1. Provide with a berth.

2. Secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat".

3. Come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the evening".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "berth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

19th Century Satire

Economics

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Berth

Abode

Noun: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat,

Business

Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking.

Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking.

Freedom

Scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall.

Support

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Crosswords: Berth

Welsh (beautiful, valuable).

No one had a cushier berth than we did. It's not surprising our friendship could survive that. (The Big Chill; writing credit: Barbara Benedek; Lawrence Kasdan)

The rest of them by losers either by choice or by berth. (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart)

He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea ("Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"; performing artist: Paul McCartney)

Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)

Berth Quakes (1938)

His Unlucky Berth (1921)

Berth of a Nation (1920)

A Berth Scandal (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• "Doc" : 100 year history of the Sick Berth Branch (reference)

• Upper Berth (Notable American Authors Series - Part I) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Laurel & Hardy: Berth Marks (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Berth Deck, Cook's" in 1887. Photographed by E.H. Hart, 112 E. 24th St., New York. Note cooking gear, sausages in roasting rack at left, tins of beef (one from New Zealand), bread, man peeling potatoes, black sailor with bowl, coffee cups, and bearded Marine.Credit: NAVY.

Arrives at New York City with a load of troops from France, 1919. The tug Excelsior (closest to camera) is among those assisting her into her berth. Photo printed on a stereograph card, published by the Keystone View Company. See Photo # NH 82654 (extended caption) for the text printed on the original stereograph card's reverse side, concerning World War I trans-Atlantic logistics accomplishments.Credit: NAVY.

Is moved to a berth at the Norfolk Naval Base to load aircraft in December 1953, shortly before her departure for France. Among the ships in the background are USS New Jersey (BB-62), USS Albany (CA-123) and USS Casa Grande (LSD-13).Credit: NAVY.

Berth deck of transport.Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Brooklyn, berth deck cooks.Credit: Library of Congress.

Electric-lighted berth on a deluxe overland limited train.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pearl Harbor bombing. Drydock bound. The USS West Virginia, sunk at her berth by Japanese torpedoes and bombs during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, was raised sufficiently to enable her to be towed to drydock. She is shown here being maneuvered by t.Credit: Library of Congress.

Worker employed at Fort Bragg and renting a lower berth in a bunkhouse recently constructed behind a filling station. Near Silver Lake, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.

Silver Lake (vicinity), North Carolina. A worker who is employed at Fort Bragg in the doorway of a bunkerhouse in which he rents a lower berth.Credit: Library of Congress.

Officers' quarters mock-up. Third officer, to open berth.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

The annual cargo throughput capacity of Phuket port is 32,000 TEUs for container berth and 420,000 tons for conventional cargo berth. (references)

There are transit sheds for cargo right behind the berth, including dedicated storage areas for valuable, damaged, and dangerous goods. (references)

Phase I of the project is to construct two general cargo berths; one will be a unprocessed lumber berth, and the other will be a grain berth. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

The MOU was amended in 1999 to permit U.S. naval vessels to berth at the Changi Naval Base, which was completed in early 2001. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

Only when old boats are replaced do berths become available, and only those who can provide evidence of berth ownership can qualify to import recreational or fishing boats. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "berth": a wide berth ♦ berth deck ♦ building berth ♦ ferry berth ♦ Foul berth ♦ give a wide berth ♦ give a wide berth to ♦ give smb. a wide berth ♦ i want a berth ♦ lower berth ♦ mooring berth ♦ out of a berth ♦ put smb. into a berth ♦ sick berth ♦ test und tune berth ♦ upper berth ♦ wide berth. Additional references.

Beginning with "berth": berth-holders.

Ending with "berth": six-berth.

Albanian

vend pune (billet, job), vend ankorimi (anchorage), shtrat (bed, bottom, couch, crutch, floor, hotbed, kip, layer, rest, sack), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), palmetë, ankoroj (anchor). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسافة كافية, ‏مضجع في السفينة, ‏مرسى (anchorage, moorage, mooring), ‏وظيفة (billet, capacity, frame, function, job, khanate, metier, office, place, position, role, service), ‏ترسو السفينة, ‏عمل (act, action, aggravation, business, deed, elaborate, employment, engagement, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labor, labour, making, occupation, place, pursuit, racket, see, situation, task, work), ‏آمن مضجعا ل, ‏رسا السفينة (moor). (various references)

Basque

bideohe (crib). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спално място, работа (affair, avocation, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), котвена стоянка, каюта (cabin), голяма женска кръгла яка. (various references)

Chinese 

臥位 , 停泊处, 泊位 . (various references)

Czech

zakotvit (anchor, embed), přístavištì (docks, landing place, quay, wharf), lùžko (bed, bunk), kotvištì (anchorage, jetty, moorings, road, roadstead), kóje (bunk, cubicle). (various references)

Danish

perronafsnit, liggeplads (couchette, mooring place, reclining berth, shelter, sleeping accommodation), landingsplads (jetty, landing stage, pier), lægge til (come alongside), koeje (bunk, couch), kajplads (dredged berth), køje (bunk, couch), grube (cavity, dredged berth, hoistway pit, hollow, pit, pits, pitting corrosion), grav (canyon, deep, dredged berth, tomb, trench), fortoejningsplads, fortøjningsplads (mooring place). (various references)

Dutch

bedplaats (sleeping accommodation, sleeping berth), bed (bed, bed of machine, bedding, bunk, couch, rubble stones), slaapplaats (bunk, couch, sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place), ligplaats (anchorage, basin, bed ground, couchette, creep area, lying box, moorage, mooring, reclining berth, sleeping accommodation, stance, stock camp, tying-up place), langszijde komen (come alongside), kooi (bunk, cabin, cage, car, couch, hammock, quoin), halte (halt, stage, station, stop), geul (bayou, channel, deep, drain, dredged berth, furrow, grip, gully, gut, gutter, sludge, wrinkle), ankerplaats (anchorage, fleeting area, flooding, moorage, mooring, mooring place, shelter), aanlegplaats (landing-stage, pier, platform, quay, site, wharf), aanleggen (aim, build, come alongside, construct, install, level, spreading, take aim). (various references)

Farsi 

پهلوگرفتن , موقعیت (Case, Lie, Location, Occasion, Pertinence, Plot, Position, Situation), لنگرگاه (Anchorage, Dock, Harbor, Haven, Levee, Marina, Pier, Port), خوابگاه کشتی , جا (Case, Emplacement, House, Lieu, Locality, Location, Lodge, Place, Receptacle, Room, Seat, Site, Situation, Socket, Space, Station, Stead, Vacancy, Vacantness), اطاق کشتی . (various references)

Finnish

vuode (bed, bedstead, bunk, couch, double bed), pysähtymispaikka, koiju (bunk, couch), koija (bunk, couch), kiinnityspaikka (mooring place), kiinnittää (affix, attach, belay, clamp, come alongside, determine, fasten, fix, grip, make fast, moor, mount, secure, set, set up, to build-in, to create a mortgage, to fix, to restrain). (various references)

French

poste d'amarrage, couchette (reclining berth), accoster (to berth a vessel(alongside quay)). (various references)

German

Koje (bed, bunk, cabin, couch), Liegeplatz (couchette, flooding, moorage, mooring place, moorings, place to lie, reclining berth, shelter, site), anlegen (apply, attach, berthing, buckle on, clap on, come alongside, coming alongside, couch, create, dock, docking, Don, draw up, feed, fund, invest, land, landing, landscape, lay, lay back, lay beside, lay in, lay on, lay out, lay up, lean, locate, moor, mooring, position, put on, put onto, set, set out, site, spreading, start, stroke in, structure, support, sustain, to apply, to apply (to), to berth a vessel(alongside quay), to come alongside, to invest), Anlegeplatz (embarkation point, landing place, moorage, mooring, mooring place, moorings). (various references)

Greek 

κουκέτα (bunk, cot, couch, couchette, reclining berth). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרצף. (various references)

Hungarian

hálóhely (bunk, roost, sack), raktár (depository, depot, dump, go down, godown, hold, magazine, repository, stock, stock room, stockpile, storage, store, store room, storehouse, warehouse, yard), priccs (bed of boards, bunk, doss, pallet), kikötőhely (landing-place, lay-by, moorage, mooring), horgonyzóhely (anchorage, anchoring berth, lay-by), hely (beehive, boonies, chair, enclosure, hick, houseroom, locality, location, loco, place, room, shrine, site, space, spot, stance, stead, test hole), fekhely (bed, doss), elhelyezkedés (arrangement, displacement, disposition, establishing, localization, location, post, posture, settling down, situation), étkezde (buttery, canteen, eating-house, lunchroom, mess, mess hall, mess room), ágy (bed, couch, doss, kip, sack). (various references)

Indonesian

berlabuh, tempat (holder, location, place, site, space), pekerjaan (employment, job, occupation), menambatkan (moor). (various references)

Italian

cuccetta (bunk, couch, couchette, reclining berth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

船台 , ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality), 泊地 (anchorage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

バース (birth, verse), せ�"� い (family predecessor, forever, previous age, previous generation, thousand years, very long period), はくち (anchorage, idiocy, idiot). (various references)

Manx

lhiabbee akeragh (anchoring berth, berthing, moorage), burtey, burt. (various references)

Norwegian

ankerplass. (various references)

Occitan

liechòta (crib). (various references)

Pig Latin

erthbay

Portuguese

beliche (bunk, couch), atracar (berthing, come alongside, grapple, moor). (various references)

Romanian

slujbã (celebration, duty, employ, employment, office, post, service, situation, spot, work), situaţie (account, billet, case, condition, eminence, footing, location, position, posture, report, setting, site, situation, state), serviciu (attendance, department, employ, employment, Favor, favour, job, ministration, ministry, office, position, service, situation, turn), post (appointment, billet, job, office, position, post, station), pat pe vapor, ocoli cu grijã, loc de staţionare, evita (avoid, balk, baulk, by pass, clear, dodge, elide, elude, escape, eschew, evade, finesse, fly, forbear, keep from, Parry, pass off, put off, save, shun, spare), danã, cuşetã (bunk), cabinã (booth, cabin, compartment, cuddy, hutch, state room), ancora (come to anchor, land). (various references)

Russian 

стоянка (carpark, parking, parking lot, parking place, parking space, stand), ставить на якорь, якорная стоянка (anchorage), спальное место (couchette), койка (bunk, kip, pallet, sack), причал (moorage, pier, wharf), полка (rack, shelf). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usidriti brod, sidrište (advanced fleet anchorage, anchorage, mooring, roadstead), mesto usidrenja, krevet u kabini. (various references)

Spanish

litera (bunk, bunk bed, cabin, couch, couchette, litter, reclining berth), atracar (come alongside, dock, hold up, land, moor, Rob, tie up, to berth a vessel(alongside quay), to come alongside), amarradero (dolphin, halter, landing-stage, moorage, mooring, moorings, pier, pile mooring, tether, tie, tying). (various references)

Swedish

koj (bunk, hammock), ankarplats (anchorage, fleeting area). (various references)

Thai

ที่นอนในเรือหรือรถไฟ. (various references)

Turkish

yatak (bearings, bed, bunk, bye bye, den, doss, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seam, seating, seminary), yatacak yer bulmak, ranza (bunk), rıhtıma yanaşmak (dock), rıhtıma bağlamak, palamar yeri, manevra alanı, kuşet (couchette), açıklık (aperture, baldness, clarity, clearance, clearness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, directness, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, erectness, evidence, fairness, gap, interstice, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, palpability, patency, perspicuity, plainness, preciseness, publicity, rift, roundness, space, spread, straightforwardness, the open, vacancy, yard). (various references)

Ukranian 

ставити на якір (anchor), спальне місце, каюта (cabin), надавати спальне місце, надавати посаду, місце стоянки (moorings), місце причалу (moorage), ліжко (bed, bedstead, bunk, doss, kip), приміщення (accommodation, apartment, cantonment, lodgement, lodgment, rooms), посада (appointment, assignment, billet, capacity, incumbency, office, place, position, post, seat, work). (various references)

Welsh

swydd (county, office), lle llong, gwely llongwr. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "berth": bertha, berthas, berthed, berthing, berths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Berth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberthow, Bairth, Bartha, Beath, beeth, begrutch, benth, berch, berht, bert, berte, berti, berto, Bertz, beruhrt, betr, betry, bettah, Beuth, bicth, Bilroth, birh, birrt, birthd, birthf, birtl, bredth, Bretch, breth, bretz, burth, Byrth, Ebyth, erth, Seryth, Uberti, Uberto. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: beth, herb.

-2 letters: bet, eth, her, het, reb, ret, the.

-3 letters: be, eh, er, et, he, re.

+1 letter: bather, bertha, berths, bother, breath.

+2 letters: batcher, bathers, berthas, berthed, bethorn, betroth, birthed, blather, blether, blither, botcher, bothers, brachet, breadth, breathe, breaths, breathy, brothel, brother, burthen, butcher, halbert, potherb, rebirth, sherbet, theorbo, thereby, turbeth.

+3 letters: barathea, barghest, batchers, bathrobe, berthing, bethorns, betroths, bitchery, bitchier, blathers, blethers, blighter, blithers, botchers, botchery, botchier, bothered, brachets, brashest, breadths, breathed, breather, breathes, brethren, brighten, brighter, britches, brothels, brothers, burthens, butchers, butchery, eurybath, halberts, herbiest, potherbs, rebirths, rebought, sherbert, sherbets, theorbos, throbbed, throbber, thurible, turbeths.

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