Past tense of port
regular verb
The past tense of port is ported. The past participle is also ported.
Forms of port
| Base form (V1) | port /pɔːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | ported /ˈpoɹ.tɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | ported /ˈpoɹ.tɪd/ |
| Present participle | porting |
| Third person singular | ports /pɔɹts/ |
Ported in a sentence
- Our cruise ship ported at Mykonos, a small island off the coast of Greece, for an overnight stay.2017, Willian R. Stephenson, Conversations: Stories and Poems that Speak to Our Soul
- Yes, it's 'only' a small block, but it’s got some tricks up its sleeve — it's been bored, stroked, ported, polished, and fuel-injected.From the entry stroke
- Is anything like this going on inside the program in question as ported to Pleiades?2010, Ralf Gruber, Vincent Keller, HPC@Green IT: Green High Performance Computing Methods, page 81. From the entry misoptimize
- They were mounted as crapaudine doors; i.e., supflat moldings, studded with rosettes, surmounted by a cyma ported by pivots fitted into sockets in threshold and lintel.1973, Encyclopaedia Britannica - Volume 7, page 589. From the entry crapaudine
Meaning of port
- noun A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- noun A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
- noun The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing forward. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
Questions about the past tense of port
- What is the past tense of port?
- The past tense of port is ported.
- What is the past participle of port?
- The past participle of port is ported.
- Is port a regular or irregular verb?
- Port is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: port (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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