Port
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. A town or city containing such a place. The left-hand side of a vessel when one is facing the front. An entryway or gate; a portal. An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole. A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through. An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made. A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted. Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making. The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also . The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder. A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting. (FreeBSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application. A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal. A schoolbag or suitcase.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To carry, bear, or transport. See . To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command. To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform; to adapt a console video game title to be sold and played on another brand of console.
Example sentence: If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.
Interface
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to construct an interface for, to connect through an interfaceto be an interface, to be into an interface
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The point of interconnection between two entities.The point of interconnection between two systems or subsystems.The connection between a user and a machine.A thin layer or boundary between two different substances or two phases of a single substance.In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
Example sentence: As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.