airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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(noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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(noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
(noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
outport | (noun) a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade) | - |
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passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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(noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
port | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, porthole |
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(noun) (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | Synonyms: interface |
(noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: larboard |
(noun) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | Synonyms: port wine |
(noun) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | - |
purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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(noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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report | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: reputation |
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(noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up |
(noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: account |
(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, theme |
(noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: study, written report |
(noun) a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment | Synonyms: report card |
(noun) a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing) | - |
seaport | (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, haven |
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spoilsport | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: killjoy, party pooper, wet blanket |
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sport | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: athletics |
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(noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay | - |
(noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, play |
(noun) someone who engages in sports | - |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation |
(noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances | - |
(noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: summercater |
support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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(noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
(noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
(noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
(noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
(noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
(noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
(noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
(noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
transport | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transportation |
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(noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation |
(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: conveyance |
(noun) a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder | Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport |
(noun) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes | - |
(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus |