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a doorway dressed as a place, where the world's stuff stops being someone else's problem
means A place on a coast or river where ships load and unload, dock, and shelter — or, by extension, the very act of carrying goods to and from such a place.
from From Latin 'portus,' a harbor or haven — itself rooted in the idea of a passage or entrance, kin to 'porta,' a gate or door, and to the verb 'portare,' to carry. So the harbor and the doorway share blood: both are openings through which things pass. The English word arrived early, by way of Old English and reinforced through French, and that same Latin family branches out everywhere — into 'portal,' 'import,' 'export,' 'transport,' and 'porter,' the one who does the carrying.
- left side
- Port is a ship's left because dock-facing loading
- the wine
- Named for Porto, fortified to survive sea voyages
- computer ports
- 65,535 of them, numbered for traffic control
- verb mode
- To port code is migrating it to survive
- old name
- Larboard ditched because it sounded like starboard
port of shanghai — world's busiest container port by volume, china, handles 47+ million teu annually
port of rotterdam — europe's largest port, netherlands, handles 500+ million tons of cargo yearly
port of singapore — world's busiest transshipment hub, singapore, processes 37+ million teu per year