porting

Verb (1)

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. (imperative, transitive) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
   • Port your helm!
2. To dock at a port.
   • The tall ships will port in Pugwash during its annual Harbourfest Celebrations[…]2009 March 25, Metro International, Atlantic Free Daily Newspapers Inc., Metro Halifax - March 25, 2009

Verb (2)

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. (transitive) To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.
   • Dauid in this Pſalme doth exhoꝛt, to pꝛayſe the Loꝛde alwayes: Foꝛ that he did vs make and poꝛt, and guydes vs all our dayes.1567 February 8 (Gregorian calendar), John Pits, “The .100. Psalme”, in A Poore Mannes Beneuolence to the Afflicted Church, London: […] Alexander Lacy, signature [B.iv.], recto
2. (transitive) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lies 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.
   • Port arms!
3. (transitive) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.
   • By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo.2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 259
4. (ergative) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one service provider to another.
   • If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131

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