Look up: portage

1. Portage
   HMCS Portage was a Canadian minesweeper of 950 tons displacement launched in 1942. HMCS Portage was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 15 knots and carried a complement of 104. She was armed with one 4 inch dual-purpose gun; four 20 mm Oerlikon guns; one hedgehog anti-ship mortar and two depth charge throwers.
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2. Portage
   A trip between waterways or around a waterway obstruction, carrying everything along with you.
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3. portage
   [n] - the cost of carrying or transporting 2. [n] - overland track between navigable waterways 3. [n] - carrying boats and supplies overland
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4. Portage
   Home-visiting educational service
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5. Portage
   An early intervention programme devised to encourage mothers to stimulate deprived children in Wisconsin, USA. It consists of a developmental checklist which focuses attention on strengths and needs and a set of guidelines and suggestions about what to teach next.
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6. Portage
   Planned, home-based educational support for pre-school children with special educational needs usually provided by the local education authority.
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7. Portage
   Port'age noun [ From 2d Port .] (Nautical) (a) A sailor's wages when in port. (b) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
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8. Portage
   Port'age noun [ 3d Port .] A porthole. [ Obsolete] Shak.
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9. Portage
   Por'tage noun [ French, 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. [ Obsolete] H...
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10. Portage
    Por'tage transitive verb & i. To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
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11. portage
    noun carrying boats and supplies overland
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12. portage
    noun overland track between navigable waterways
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13. portage
    noun the cost of carrying or transporting
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14. Portage
    • (n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage. • (n.) The price of carriage; porterage. • (n.) The act of carrying or transporting. • (n.) A porthole. • (n.) A sailor`s wages when in port. • (n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry. • (v. t. & i.) To carry (good...
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15. Portage
    city, seat (1851) of Columbia county, south-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, about 35 miles (55 km) north of ...
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16. portage
    portage 1. The action or work of carrying or transporting. 2. To carry or transport (boats, goods, etc.) over land between navigable waters.
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17. portage
    
    • the cost of carrying or transporting
    • overland track between navigable waterways
    • carrying boats and supplies overland
    
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18. Portage
    Portage (1, 2 pôr'tuj; 3 pôr'tij) . 1. Town (1990 pop. 29,060), Porter co., NW Ind., a suburb of Gary, on Lake Michigan; inc. 1959. The town, which was once surrounded by great industries, manufactures steel and a number of other goods. It is also a shipping center; Burns Interna...
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19. Portage
    `Portage` or `portaging` refers to the practice of carrying watercraft or cargo over land to avoid river obstacles, or between two bodies of water. A place where this carrying occurs is also called a `portage`; a person doing the carrying is called a porter. The English word portage is derive...
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20. Portage
    (software) `Portage` is a package management system used by Gentoo Linux, based on the concept of ports collections. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a meta-distribution due to the extreme flexibility of Portage, which makes it operating-system-independent. The Gentoo/Alt project is ...
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21. Portage
    (town) |title = Members` List |frame_style = border:none; padding: 0; |title_style = |list_style = text-align:left;display:none; |1 = • Harlan D. James (D, 2 = • John Thompson (United States Democratic Party|D, 3 = • Thomas Allen (United States Republican Party|R) |4 = Ã...
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