porter

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/ˈpɔɹtɚ/

noun 7name 5verb 1

Collocations

(noun.) helps lift and carry things

ADJ

hospital, kitchen, railway

VERB + PORTER

act as

During the hotel renovation, several workers acted as porters to move guest luggage upstairs.

call, hail

When we arrived at the airport, we called a porter to help with our luggage.

PORTER + VERB

carry sth

(noun.) in charge of the entrance of a large building

ADJ

head | hall, hotel | night | uniformed

PHRASES

porter's desk, porter's lodge

Definitions

noun

A person who carries luggage and related objects.

By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

An ant having the specialized role of carrying.

One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).

[…] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.

noun

A person in control of the entrance to a building.

An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.

A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.

Stout (malt brew).

‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.

verb

To serve as a porter; to carry.

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Synonyms

noun — someone who guards an entrance

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

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By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

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Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

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the unsmotherable delight of all the porters and by - standers

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‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.

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The pixels’ use in a taxpayer context resulted in the “reckless” sharing of legally protected data that could put taxpayers at risk, according to the report by Warren and her Democratic colleagues Sen

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"What do you say to the 40 percent of California voters, who you'll need in order to win, who voted for (President Donald) Trump?" Watts asked. Then Porter said, "How would I need them in order to win

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