English-Thai Dictionary

portage

N การ ขนย้าย  การขนส่ง  ค่า ขนย้าย  ค้า ขนส่ง  carriage transport delivery kan-kon-yai

 

portage

VI ขนย้าย  ขนส่ง  kon-yai

 

portage

VT ขนย้าย  ขนส่ง  kon-yai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PORTAGE

n.The act of carrying. 1. The price of carriage.
2. A port-hole. [Unusual. ]
3. A carrying place over land between navigable waters.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PORTAGE

Port "age (; 48 ), n. Etym: [From 2d Port. ] (Naut. )(a ) A sailor's wages when in port. (b ) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.

 

PORTAGE

Port "age, n. Etym: [3d Port. ]

 

Defn: A porthole. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

PORTAGE

Por "tage, n. Etym: [F., from porter to carry. See Port to carry. ]

 

1. The act of carrying or transporting.

 

2. The price of carriage; porterage. Bp. Fell.

 

3. Capacity for carrying; tonnage. [Obs. ] Hakluyt.

 

4. A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.

 

PORTAGE

PORTAGE Por "tage, v. t. & i.

 

Defn: To carry (goods, boats, etc. ) overland between navigable waters.

 

PORTAGE GROUP

Por "tage group `. Etym: [So called from the township of Portage in New York. ] (Geol.)

 

Defn: A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Portage

Por tage |ˈpôrtij ˈpɔrtɪʤ | 1 a port city in northwestern Indiana, on Lake Erie, east of Gary; pop. 36,976 (est. 2008 ). 2 a city in southwestern Michigan, south of Kalamazoo; pop. 46,133 (est. 2008 ).

 

portage

por tage |ˈpôrtij ˈpɔrdɪʤ | ▶noun the carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters: the return journey was made much simpler by portage. • a place at which this is necessary: a portage over the dam. • archaic the action of carrying or transporting something. ▶verb [ with obj. ] carry (a boat or its cargo ) between navigable waters: they are incapable of portaging a canoe | [ no obj. ] : they would only run the rapid if they couldn't portage. • [ no obj. ] (of a boat ) be carried between navigable waters: the cataracts meant that boats had to portage on to the Lualaba. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French, from porter ‘carry. ’ The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

portage

portage |ˈpɔːtɪdʒ, pɔːˈtɑːʒ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters: the return journey was made much simpler by portage. • [ count noun ] a place at which portage is necessary: a portage over the weir. • archaic the action of carrying or transporting something. ▶verb [ with obj. ] carry (a boat or its cargo ) between navigable waters: we portaged everything here. • [ no obj., with adverbial ] (of a boat ) be carried between or across unnavigable waters. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French, from porter ‘carry ’. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th cent.

 

Portage

Por tage |ˈpôrtij ˈpɔrtɪʤ | 1 a port city in northwestern Indiana, on Lake Erie, east of Gary; pop. 36,976 (est. 2008 ). 2 a city in southwestern Michigan, south of Kalamazoo; pop. 46,133 (est. 2008 ).

 

Duden Dictionary

Portage

Por ta ge Substantiv, feminin , die |Port a ge …ʒə |die Portage; Genitiv: der Portage, Plural: die Portagen lateinisch-französisch 1 Warenladung an Bord eines Schiffes 2 Pakotille

 

French Dictionary

portage

portage n. m. nom masculin Action de porter une embarcation (généralement un canot ) d ’un cours d ’eau à un autre, souvent pour éviter une section non navigable. : Les scouts ont fait du portage pour contourner la chute. « La douleur hallucinante /Des portages /Des partages obligatoires » (Jean-Guy Pilon , Comme eau retenue ).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

portage

por tage /pɔ́ː r tɪdʒ /名詞 U 運搬 ; 運賃 ; (両水路間の )陸路 (での運搬 ).動詞 他動詞 〈船 貨物など 〉を連水陸路で運ぶ .