porter
IPA: pˈɔrtɝ
noun
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A unisex given name
- A placename in the United States:
- A town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana.
- A town and village in Oxford County, Maine.
- A minor city in Yellow Medicine County and Lincoln County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
- A town in Niagara County, New York, named after Augustus Porter.
- An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio.
- A town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
- A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Porter Township.
- Ellipsis of Porter County. [One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Valparaiso.]
- Ellipsis of Porter Crater.
verb
- To serve as a porter; to carry.
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Examples of "porter" in Sentences
- Highly alcoholic, bourbon barrel, mocha cherry imperial coffee porter is way cooler than Mild.
- A porter is summoned from across the lobby and he escorts me to the lifts at the back of the hotel.
- “Gharíb:” the porter is offended because the word implies “poor devil;” esp. one out of his own country.
- When the dead body of a Ukrainian porter is discovered in the restaurant cellar, the tenuous balance in Gabe's life begins to slip.
- Two U.S. Marines were killed and at least seven were wounded in the fighting in the border town of Obeidi, accor-ding to a New York Times re-porter is em-bedded with the Marines.
- “Johnny Berlin” follows the titular train porter (a cross between a maid and a bellboy) as he carries out his tour of duty aboard a refurbished 1930s luxury train travelling up and down the West coast.
- _Pylorus_ is the Greek for a porter; and our ring is indeed a porter like the one of which we have already said so much, and which I called last time the _porter up above_, in anticipation of his colleague below.
- Joey should've been chris pine john you're all morons for not seeing how perfect scott porter is for the role fingers crossed samboni for all thats good in the world dont let Chace Crawford be in it! postavant. com
- By Jonathan, at 6/09/2007 9: 06 PM is it possible to post your src code? looking at this reminds me of the rules in porter stemmer. haha I was intending to do a dutton speedword software to add into babelfish (english-dutton speedword) but sadly I couldnt find the word list around. power of zipf's law 8p thx
- An old hand will tell you the peculiarities of every spike in England, as: at A you are allowed to smoke but there are bugs in the cells; at B the beds are comfortable but the porter is a bully; at C they let you out early in the morning but the tea is undrinkable; at D the officials steal your money if you have anyand so on interminably.
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