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porter

1

[pawr-ter, pohr-]

noun

  1. a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.

  2. a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc.

  3. an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleeping car.

porter

2

[pawr-ter, pohr-]

noun

  1. a person who has charge of a door or gate; doorkeeper.

  2. Roman Catholic Church.ostiary.

porter

3

[pawr-ter, pohr-]

noun

  1. a heavy, dark-brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature.

Porter

4

[pawr-ter, pohr-]

noun

  1. Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.

  2. David, 1780–1843, U.S. naval officer.

  3. his son David Dixon 1813–91, Union naval officer in the Civil War.

  4. Edwin Stanton, 1870–1941, U.S. film director.

  5. Gene Gene Stratton Porter, 1868–1924, U.S. novelist.

  6. Sir George, 1920–2002, British chemist: Nobel Prize 1967.

  7. Katherine Anne, 1890–1980, U.S. writer.

  8. Noah, 1811–92, U.S. educator, writer, and lexicographer.

  9. Rodney Robert, 1917–85, British biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1972.

  10. William Sydney O. Henry, 1862–1910, U.S. short-story writer.

  11. a male given name.

porter

1

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc, esp at a railway station or hotel

  2. (in hospitals) a person employed to move patients from place to place

  3. a railway employee who waits on passengers, esp in a sleeper

  4. a manual labourer

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porter

2

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. a person in charge of a gate or door; doorman or gatekeeper

  2. a person employed by a university or college as a caretaker and doorkeeper who also answers enquiries

  3. a person in charge of the maintenance of a building, esp a block of flats

  4. Also called: ostiary.RC Church a person ordained to what was formerly the lowest in rank of the minor orders

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porter

3

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. a dark sweet ale brewed from black malt

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Porter

4

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. Cole. 1893–1964, US composer and lyricist of musical comedies. His most popular songs include Night and Day and Let's do It

  2. George, Baron Porter of Luddenham. 1920–2002, British chemist, who shared a Nobel prize for chemistry in 1967 for his work on flash photolysis

  3. Katherine Anne. 1890–1980, US short-story writer and novelist. Her best-known collections of stories are Flowering Judas (1930) and Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)

  4. Rodney Robert. 1917–85, British biochemist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1972 for determining the structure of an antibody

  5. William Sidney. original name of O. Henry

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Porter

  1. British biochemist who shared with George Edelman the 1972 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for their study of the chemical structure of antibodies.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Porter1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English portour, portur(e), porter, from Anglo-French portour, porter, from Middle French portour, from Old French porteour, from Late Latin ǰō- (stem of ǰٴǰ, a derivative of ǰ “to carry”; port 5, -or 2

Origin of Porter2

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English porter, porter(e), portar(e), from Anglo-French porter, portour, from Old French portier, from Late Latin ǰܲ “gatekeeper,” equivalent to porta “door” + -ܲ adjective and noun suffix; port 4, -er 2

Origin of Porter3

First recorded in 1720–30; short for porter's ale, apparently originally brewed for porters
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Porter1

C14: from Old French portour, from Late Latin ǰō, from Latin ǰ to carry

Origin of Porter2

C13: from Old French portier, from Late Latin ǰܲ doorkeeper, from Latin porta door

Origin of Porter3

C18: shortened from porter's ale, apparently because it was a favourite beverage of porters
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It will affect a wide range of staff including nurses, midwives, paramedics - and other workers such as porters - but not doctors whose pay is negotiated separately.

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"How about a porter wearing a pair of shoes from lost property and the person turning up to claim them?," laughed David.

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Looking as powerful as she feels, Mueller welds steel beams for her next porter chair, which will include salvaged bamboo roots.

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Victoria said a hospital porter arrived at the bereavement suite and left a bag with a white metal box inside, where they were asked to place Ollie.

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A porter comes and goes to move the vacant wheelchair.

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