Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 96
Porite (n.) Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidae.
Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
Pork (n.) 豬肉 [U]；【美】【口】政治恩惠（指政府用以籠絡民心的撥款等）[U] The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
Pork (n.) Meat from a domestic hog or pig [syn: pork, porc].
Pork (n.) A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents [syn: pork barrel, pork].
Porker (n.) A hog.
Porket (n.) A young hog; a pig.
Porkling (n.) A pig; a porket.
Porkwood (n.) The coarse-grained
brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of
Porn (n.) [ U ] (Informal) 淫穢作品 Informal for pornography.
// Some of those photos they show in tabloid newspapers are nothing but porn.
Porn (a.) (Also Porno,) 淫穢的 Informal for pornographic (pornography).
// A porn shop.
// Porn movies.
// Porno magazines.
Pornerastic (a.) Lascivious; licentious.
Pornographic (a.) 色情文學（或圖畫）的 Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
Pornographic (a.) Designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"; "adult movies" [syn: {pornographic}, {adult}].
Pornography (n.) 春畫；黃色書刊 Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
Pornography (n.) (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
Pornography (n.) Obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures, videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual arousal and having little or no artistic merit; also, the content of such materials.
Pornography (n.) Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: {pornography}, {porno}, {porn}, {erotica}, {smut}].
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porno, () [U] 色情描寫；色情書刊；色情圖片；色情電影 Still and moving images, usually of women, in varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts with men, women, animals, machines, or other props. Some say it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who down-load it from the web or exchange it on floppy disks). Most of it is in the form of JPEG images.
Many websites offer porn of all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology and techniques for the web.
Advertisments for them certainly constitute a significant proportion of all spam. There are even pornographic computer games, an early example being Mac Playmate.
Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have strict rules against their computers and networks being used to transfer or store such things, and you might get corrupted. (2002-03-08)
Pornography (n.) [ U ] (Informal porn) (Disapproving) 淫穢作品；色情書刊（或電影等） Books, magazines, films, etc. with no artistic value that describe or show sexual acts or naked people in a way that is intended to be sexually exciting.
// A campaign against pornography.
// Hard (-core) (= very detailed) porn.
// Soft (-core) (= not very detailed) porn.
Pornography (n.) The depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement.
Pornography (n.) Material (such as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement.
Pornography (n.) The depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction. - Pornographic (a.), - Pornographically (adv.)
// The pornography of violence.
Porosity (n.) The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
Porosity (n.) [ U ] 滲透（性）；多孔（性） The state of being porous.
Porotic (n.) A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.
Porous (n.) Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
Porous (a.) 多孔的；能滲漏的 Something that is porous has many small holes, so liquid or air can pass through, especially slowly.
// Porous soil with good drainage.
// Porous brick walls.
// A porous polymer membrane.
Porous (a.) 多漏洞的，鬆懈的 Not protected enough to stop people going through.
// The border in this region is porous and many refugees have simply walked across.
Porously (adv.) In a porous manner.
Porously (adv.) In a porous way; allowing liquid or gas to pass through.
// The porously dried material was ready.
Porousness (n.) 多孔性 The quality of being porous.
Porousness (n.) The open parts; the interstices of anything. [R.]
They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. -- Sir K. Digby.
Porousness (n.) The property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids [syn: {porosity}, {porousness}] [ant: {solidity}, {solidness}].
Porpentine (n.) Porcupine. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Porpesse (n.) A porpoise. [Obs.]
Porphyraceous (a.) Porphyritic.
Porphyre (n.) Porphyry. [Obs.] -- Locke.
Porphyrin (n.) 卟啉；又稱紫質 Any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues.
Porphyrite (n.) (Min.) 玢岩 A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.
Porphyritic (a.) (Min.) 斑狀組織 Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.
Porphyritic (a.) (Of rocks) Consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals.
Porphyrization (n.) 粉碎 The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
Porphyrize (v. t.) 粉碎；研細 To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.
Porphyrogenitism (n.) (Rare) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. -- Sir T. Palgrave.
Porphyries (n. pl. ) of Porphyry.
Porphyry (n.) (Geol.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.
Porphyry shell (Zool.) A handsome marine gastropod shell ({Oliva porphyria), having a dark red or brown polished surface, marked with light spots, like porphyry.
Porphyry (n.) Any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals [syn: porphyry, porphyritic rock].
Porpita (n.) (Zool.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
Porpoise (n.) (Zool.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species ({P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.
Porpoise (n.) (Zool.) A true dolphin ({Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
Skunk porpoise, or Bay porpoise (Zool.), A North American porpoise ({Lagenorhynchus acutus), larger than the common species, and with broad stripes of white and yellow on the sides. See Illustration in Appendix.
Porpoise (n.) Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth.
Porporino (n.) [It.] A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold. -- Fairholt.
Porpus (n.) A porpoise. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Porraceous (a.) Resembling the leek in color; greenish. [R.] "Porraceous vomiting." -- Wiseman.
Porrect (a.) Extended horizontally; stretched out.
Porrection (n.) The act of stretching forth.
Porret (n.) A scallion; a leek or small onion. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Porridge (n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
Porridge (n.) Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick.
Porringer (n.) A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. --Wordsworth.
Porringer (n.) A shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child was eating pottage from a porringer."
Port (n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
Port (v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.
Port (v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.
Port (n.) A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. [Archaic]
Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered. -- Shak.
Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing. -- Milton.
Port (n.) (Naut.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.
Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Port (n.) (Mach.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.
Air port, Bridle port, etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc.
Port bar (Naut.), A bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale.
Port lid (Naut.), A lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel.
Steam port, & Exhaust port (Steam Engine), The ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.
Ported (imp. & p. p.) of Port.
Porting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Port.
Port (v. t.) To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.]
They are easily ported by boat into other shires. -- Fuller.
Port (v. t.) (Mil.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.
Began to hem him round with ported spears. -- Milton.
Port arms, A position in the manual of arms, executed as above.
Port (n.) The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. [archaic] -- Spenser.
And of his port as meek as is a maid. -- Chaucer.
The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world. -- South.
Port (n.) (Naut.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.
Port (v. t.) (Naut.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.
Portae (n. pl. ) of Porta.
Porta (n.) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.
Porta (n.) The foramen of Monro.
Portability (n.) The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
Portable (a.) 可攜帶的，可搬運的，可移動的 Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
Portable (a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.
Portable (a.) Easily or conveniently transported; "a portable television set" [ant: {unportable}].
Portable (a.) Of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull; "a portable outboard motor."
Portable (n.) 手提式製品；手提式打字機（或電腦，收音機，電視機等）[C] A small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried.
Portable (a.) (C1) 輕便的，便攜的；手提的 Light and small enough to be easily carried or moved.
// A portable radio/ phone/ computer.
Portableness (n.) The quality or state of being portable; portability.
Portace (n.) See Portass. [Obs.]
Portass (n.) A breviary; a prayer book. [Written variously portace, portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] -- Spenser. Camden.
By God and by this porthors I you swear. -- Chaucer.
Portage (n.) (Naut.) A sailor's wages when in port.
Portage (n.) (Naut.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
Portage (n.) A porthole. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Portage (n.) The act of carrying or transporting.
Portage (n.) The price of carriage; porterage. -- Bp. Fell.
Portage (n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage. [Obs.] -- Hakluyt.
Portage (n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.
Portage (v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
Portage (n.) The cost of carrying or transporting.
Portage (n.) Overland track between navigable waterways.
Portage (n.) Carrying boats and supplies overland.
Portage group (Geol.) A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.
Portague (n.) A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling. [Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.]
Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. -- Marlowe.
Portage (n.) The price of carriage; porterage.
Portage (n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage.
Portage (n.) A crent, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
Portal (n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone. -- Milton.
From out the fiery portal of the east. -- Shak.
Portal (n.) (Arch.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
Portal (n.) (Arch.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
Portal (n.) (Arch.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
Portal (n.) (Bridge Building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
Portal (n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.]
Portal bracing (Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.
Portal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
Note: Portal is applied to other veins which break up into capillaries; as, the renal portal veins in the frog.
Portamento (n.) In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.
Portance (n.) See Port, carriage, demeanor.
Portass (n.) A breviary; a prayer book.
Portate (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
Portative (a.) Portable.
Portative (a.) Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.
Portcluse (n.) A portcullis. [Obs.]
Portcrayon (n.) A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.
Portcullis (n.) (Fort.) A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. "Let the portcullis fall." -- Sir W. Scott.
She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew. -- Milton.
Portcullis (n.) An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.
Portcullised (imp. & p. p.) of Portcullis.
Portcullising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Portcullis.
Portcullis (v. t.) To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar. [R.] -- Shak.
Portcullis (n.) Gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage.
Porte (n.) The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.
Porte (n.) The Ottoman court in Constantinople [syn: Porte, Sublime Porte].
Porter. () The name of an ancient English officer who bore or carried a rod before the justices. The door-keeper of the English parliament also bears this name.
Porter. () One who is employed as a common carrier to carry goods from one place to another in the same town, is also called a porter. Such person is in general answerable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm. Sec. 496.
Porte-cochere (n.) (Arch.) A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochere. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.
Porte-cochere (n.) A carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard.
Porte-cochere (n.) Canopy extending out from a building entrance to shelter those getting in and out of vehicles
Ported (a.) Having gates. [Obs.]
We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. -- Chapman.
Portague (n.) [See Portuguese.] A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling. [Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.]
Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. -- Marlowe.
Portegue (n.) See Portague. [Obs.]
Portemonnaie (n.) A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.
Portended (imp. & p. p.) of Portend.
Portending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Portend.
Portend (v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. -- Bacon.
Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. -- Macaulay.
Portend (v. t.) To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." -- Pope.
Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.
Portend (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
Portension (n.) The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
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