ported

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of port.

   Engineers ported the operating system to the new chip architecture.

   The software was ported across three platforms before release.

   Note

   A regular past form that carries every meaning of the verb port, from the helmsman's order to the programmer's work. It can describe software recoded for another platform, or a phone number moved between providers, and that last use can drop the object: the number ported overnight. After have or be it is the participle; standing alone, it is the simple past.

2. 2
   adjective

   Equipped with one or more ports, such as openings, vents, or connecting sockets.

   The cabinet is ported to enhance its low-frequency output.

   Engineers tested the ported manifold under high load.

   Similarvented

   Oppositesealed

3. 3
   adjectiveobsolete

   Furnished with gates or gateways, as a fortified town once was.

   We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes.

   [1611?], Homer, The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets

   Note

   An obsolete adjective best met in George Chapman's translation of the Iliad, which gives "sevenfold-ported Thebes", the city of seven gates. It rests on port in its old sense of a town gate. A modern reader is likely to take ported as the "having openings" sense, so a writer who wants this meaning today is clearer with gated or walled.

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