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Definition: Port Of Call |
Port Of CallNoun1. Any port where a ship stops except its home port. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Shipping | Port where a ship discharges or receives traffic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Port Of Call |
| Specialty definitions using "port of call": Bond Port ♦ Feeder Vessel ♦ Hurd. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. (Babylon 5: The Gathering; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Native chiefs of Pago Pago, American Samoa, regular port of call for the Matson liners enroute to New Zealand and Australia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | These stores, often offering substantial, promotional discounts, are usually the first port of call for purchasing power tools, although local main street retailers, garden centers, and catalog companies often have the edge when hand tools are bought. (references) | |
Economic History | Sao Tome and Principe | Sugar cultivation declined over the next 100 years, and by the mid-1600s, Sao Tome was little more than a port of call for bunkering ships. (references) |
Gambia, The | Banjul served as an air stop for the U.S. Army Air Corps and a port of call for Allied naval convoys. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | In late 1992, the Zimbabwe Parliament promulgated the Investment Centre Act that provided a statutory basis for the Zimbabwe Investment Centre (ZIC), a one-stop shop ("mitigating the bureaucratic maze" in its own words), that is often the first port of call for all potential investors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
port of call | 129 |
port of call motel | 10 |
caribbean port of call | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "port of call"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | aanloophawe, aanleghawe, aanlêhawe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aanleghaven. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | albordiĝa haveno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | escale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Anlaufhafen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | viðkomuhöfn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | persinggahan (sojourn, stopoff, stopover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 寄港地 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"うち. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortpay ofay allcay porto de escala (port of debarkation), escala (Gage, gamut, gauge, grade, key, ladder, measure, scale, stopover), direitos de porto. (various references) порт захода. (various references) puerto de escala (port of necessity, port of refuge), escala (ladder, scale, stop off, stopover). (various references) angöringshamn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-l-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: collator. | |
-3 letters: caltrop, carpool, corolla, locator, rolltop, trollop. | |
-4 letters: apollo, captor, cartop, collar, collop, coplot, factor, floral, pallor, patrol, portal. | |
-5 letters: actor, afoot, allot, aloft, aloof, aport, atoll, carol, clapt, claro, cloot, coapt, color, coopt, copal, copra, coral, craft, croft, float, floor, flora, flota, focal, local, loofa, loral, octal, orlop, parol, polar, proof, taroc. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 72 74 4F 66 43 61 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o r t   O f   C a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0072 0074 004F 0066 0043 0061 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081848624972237677878 |
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