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Window on the sea
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porthole
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Word definitions for porthole in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All cabins are outside, with porthole , have private facilities and air-conditioning. ▪ Basler have chosen to alter the cabin glazing to porthole style. ▪ Before going ashore, secure hatches and lock all portholes and doors. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also port-hole , 1590s, from port (n.2) + hole (n.).
Usage examples of porthole.
Looking through the porthole, Ahl saw the great red glare of the funeral fire.
Pseudo-Tudor prevailed, with an admixture of Stockbroker Spanish Colonial, distinguished by green glazed tiles, and one British Bauhaus with a flat roof, small square windows and the occasional porthole to add a nautical air.
It was in this same second-best suit, pressed between mattresses during the voyage, and donned with self-conscious anticipation under a porthole suddenly filled with a static landscape instead of the sea and the sky, that he had emerged from the boat, with that shiny flattened look of sailors ashore.
It was not actually tied to the porthole but to an eyebolt for a chain, fastened into the hull a few inches outside the porthole.
What made him overcareful was the knowledge that portholes in boats this size were ordinarily not large enough for a man to crawl through.
The walls were lined with pipes, valves, instrument panels, and the occasional porthole.
I went below to do the washing-up, tossing the slops out of the porthole into the sea.
He looked through the porthole again, seeing nothing but darkness, thick clouds, and the faint orange straightedge of a starboard fin that was only just cooling down from their entry.
It was a 1953 powder blue Buick with shiny white top, whitewall tires big enough to fit a backhoe, and gleaming chrome portholes.
Flame belched out of a porthole, and the remaining Indians poured up the companionways, yelling in panic.
Through the near porthole Defoe saw the green-brown limb of the planet rising to greet him, edged by a thin corona of atmosphere.
He led them through a corridor to an observation bay at the stern of the sub. Through a large porthole they could see the giant creature floating in the suction stream.
He and certain other adventurers had purchased a vessel of some five hundred tons, which they proposed to convert into a pirate by cutting portholes for cannon, and running three or four carronades across her main deck.
Was the One Called Night hiding in that blackness, peering back at me through those portholes into This Side while it held her spirit trapped in the Nine Beyonds?
From the outside a bubble most resembled a planetoid with portholes, or a little round meteor with craterlets on it, but inside it was a temporary world.