資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Port \Port\, n. [F. porte, L. porta, akin to portus; cf. AS.
porte, fr. L. porta. See {Port} a harbor, and cf. {Porte}.]
1. A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place;
a gate; a door; a portal. [Archaic]
Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered.
--Shak.
Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing.
--Milton.
2. (Naut.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure
through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also,
the shutters which close such an opening.
Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
3. (Mach.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid,
as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the
interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in
a valve seat, or valve face.
{Air port}, {Bridle port}, etc. See under {Air}, {Bridle},
etc.
{Port bar} (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a
gale.
{Port lid} (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the
portholes of a vessel.
{Steam port}, & {Exhaust port} (Steam Engine), the ports of
the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for
the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.
Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.]
1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from
the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.
{Exhaust draught}, a forced draught produced by drawing air
through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing
it through.
{Exhaust fan}, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an
exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as
out of a room in ventilating it.
{Exhaust nozzle}, {Exhaust orifice} (Steam Engine), the blast
orifice or nozzle.
{Exhaust pipe} (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust
steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the
condenser.
{Exhaust port} (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder
or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.
{Exhaust purifier} (Milling), a machine for sorting grains,
or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. --Knight.
{Exhaust steam} (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to
escape from the cylinder after having been employed to
produce motion of the piston.
{Exhaust valve} (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust
steam escape out of a cylinder.