Difference between Port and Left

What is the difference between Port and Left?

Port as a noun is a place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. while Left as a noun is the left side.

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: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

Left

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: On or towards the left side.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: The opposite of right; toward the usually weaker side of the body; toward the west when one is facing north.pertaining to the political left; liberal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The left side.The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Political liberals as a group.A punch delivered with the left fist.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have a consequence or remnant.remainingpermitted, allowed to proceed.

Example sentence: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

We hope you now know whether to use Port or Left in your sentence.

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