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PORT SIDE

Specialty Definition: PORT SIDE

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Food & Agriculture

The left side of a vessel when looking forward. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: PORT SIDE

English words defined with "PORT SIDE": Helm aportPlimsoll's mark. (references)

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Modern Usage: PORT SIDE

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Movie/TV Titles

Passengers on Port Side S.S. 'St. Louis' (1899)

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

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Photo Album: PORT SIDE

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Port side of main deck of FISH-HAWK, showing portion of hatching machinery. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate II, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Hatching cylinders, on port side of FISH-HAWK. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate III, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

NOAA Fisheries Research Vessel CRIPPLE CREEK, formerly a Bureau of Mines vessel. This picture was taken January 17, 1972 after 100 mph winds with freezing spray lashed Kodiak, Alaska. Over 2 feet of ice built up on the vessel's port side during this storm. This vessel was excessed in 1973. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

USS Newark (Hospital Ship) : Port side view. Quarantine ship during World War I. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Plan view amidships and aft, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 August 1945. Note crates of provisions on deck, fully outfitted life rafts, and other details. A Fletcher class destroyer is moored on Lang's port side and a floating crane is tied up to starboard. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Credit: NAVY.

Firing her 5"/38 guns at a target drone aircraft, during exercises, 21 August 1964. The ship following next astern is USS Porterfield (DD-682). The relative positions of Wedderburn's signal flags, with the port side red "Bravo" flag hoisted higher, indicate that the ship is firing to port. Evenly hoisted flags on Porterfield indicate that her guns are not yet trained out. Photographed by PH2 R.D. Fennell. Credit: NAVY.

F-4 in drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 1 September 1915, after she had been raised from over 300 feet of water and towed into port. Note the large implosion hole in her port side, and the salvage pontoons used to support her during the final lift. This view shows F-4's port bow. She is upside down, rolled to starboard approximately 120 degrees from the vertical. Photographed by Kodagraph, Honolulu. Credit: NAVY.

Naval personnel examine the large implosion hole in F-4's port side, in drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, circa late August or early September 1915. She had been raised from over 300 feet of water and towed into port. This view was taken from off the port bow, showing the submarine's port side diving plane in the center. She is upside down, rolled to starboard approximately 120 degrees from the vertical. Credit: NAVY.

View of F-4's port side name plate, taken in drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, circa late August or early September 1915, after she had been raised from over 300 feet of water and towed into port. These figures are mounted on the submarine's port bow, and are shown upside down, as she was drydocked rolled to starboard approximately 120 degrees from the vertical. Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Hartford, inspection, looking aft., port side. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PORT SIDE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

port side

10

boat port side

2
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Modern Translation: PORT SIDE

Language Translations for "PORT SIDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bakboord. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

babord. (various references)

   

Danish

  

Venstre side af skibet set fra agter mod for. (larboard, port), bagbord (larboard, port). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bakboord (larboard, port). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

babordo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

bakborð. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

paapuuri (larboard, port). (various references)

   

French

  

bâbord (port). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

bakboard. (various references)

   

German

  

Backbord (larboard, port). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αριστερή πλευρά του πλοίου (larboard, port). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

a repülõgép bal oldala. (various references)

   

Italian

  

babordo (port). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lherrym, cheu hoshtal (larboard, left side, near side), cheu chlee (leftwing), cheu chiare (larboard, left side). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortpay idesay

   

Portuguese

  

bombordo (port), BB (Barbados, larboard, port). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

babor (larboard, port). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

babord (larboard, port). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PORT SIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: diopters, dioptres, peridots, proteids, riposted, topsider.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: deports, deposit, diopter, dioptre, disport, dopiest, editors, peridot, periods, podites, posited, prostie, proteid, redtops, reposit, riposte, ropiest, sopited, sortied, spirted, sported, steroid, storied, striped, topside, torpids, triodes, tripods.

-2 letters: deport, depots, despot, direst, dopers, dopier, dories, doters, dotier, driest, droits, editor, esprit, pedros, period, podite, poised, poiser, ported, posted, poster, potsie, presto.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: depictors, depositor, dipterous, disported, dripstone, droopiest, piedforts, proteides, redeposit, reposited, topsiders, tripodies.

 

+2 letters: adsorptive, coscripted, depositary, depositors, depository, descriptor, desorption, dripstones, editorship, expeditors, interposed, patronised, perditions, podiatries, predations, predictors, priesthood, pterygoids, redeposits, spiderwort, temporised, terpenoids, trapezoids.

 

+3 letters: conscripted, copresident, decryptions, description, descriptors, desorptions, desperation, disportment, dystrophies, editorships, misreported, nondescript, orthopedics, orthopedist, outpromised, outsprinted, outstripped, peridotites, postdivorce, predictions, priesthoods, prostituted, pyrethroids, redemptions, redeposited, repudiators, spiderworts, tetraploids, topdressing, torpidities, triploidies.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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