porthole
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈpɔrtˌhoʊl/
- Specialized
:
apertura
- The soldiers fired their weapons through the porthole in the armored vehicle.
- porthole window
- porthole on a ship
Examples
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Starboard cargo porthole's blown.
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War's end -- homecoming: World War II veterans fill every porthole as the Queen Elizabeth pulls into a pier in New York Harbor, 1945.
Blog text (29) -
The ship was burning, and the only way out was a porthole.
Blog text (11) -
- Let's get that cannon out the porthole.
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The porthole was open.
Fiction book (1999) -
He looked out his porthole, a diamond-shaped window in the door.
Fiction book (1991) -
The men decided that the meeting house should be fortified; they would put in portholes and strengthen the walls.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sixteen hours in the twenty-four, the machines rocked, the men labored before them, and fires of three colors poured intermittently from the portholes.
Fiction book (2000) -
During the battle, the captain ordered everyone to look out of the porthole to see the enemy.
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The crew quickly closed the porthole to prevent water from flooding the ship.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
An opening in something, often made by people or nature
179
1.0
A space that lets people move through, for example a door
41
6.7
An opening in a wall, ship, or vehicle for firing weapons through
4
7.0
An opening in a surface or structure, like a hole in a wall
4
7.1
A narrow opening in a fort wall for looking or firing weapons
1
9.9
An opening in a wall for firing a gun or looking out
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Porthole comes from the parts port and hole, where port meant 'door' and hole meant 'opening'. At first it named a small 'door' in the side of a ship for guns to fire through, which is why a porthole can mean an opening used to shoot through.