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starboard

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for starboard.

Editorial note

I figured out port and starboard with a little device from sailing school that has never left my head: red ->left->port green->right->starboard.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of starboard gathered in one view.

verb

(nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

noun

(nautical) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.

noun

(social media) A list that shows messages starred in a community space.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for starboard.

verb

(nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

noun

(nautical) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.

noun

(social media) A list that shows messages starred in a community space.

noun

(social media, figurative, synecdochically) A system that enables such a list.

Example sentences

1

I figured out port and starboard with a little device from sailing school that has never left my head: red ->left->port green->right->starboard.

2

Other ranks' mail goes to their mess, which is generally designated by bulkhead number and port/starboard.

3

Now each front-back curve is rasterized at intervals of I on the Y axis (from port to starboard).

4

In fact in Japan atm I use a starboard (basicly a large projector with touch capabilities), in my classroom.

5

So yeah, to a landlubber, a sailboat that can only deploy sails to starboard is obviously a huge UI win because its modeless.

6

If you perturb the ship by tilting it slightly starboard or port, and then remove the perturbation, it will return to sitting upright.

7

It also helps make Mancuso listening to Jack's port/starboard Crazy Ivan maneuver.

8

Once the aircraft is unhooked from the cable there is a period of time where, due to rolling, the cable can slide towards the starboard side of the ship and out of the landing area.

9

For me, the odd part is that I have no trouble with port and starboard.

10

Reach port sail config or reach starboard sail config.

11

Plane flipped and rolled upon loss of port wing, smearing a rolling fireball of the remaining fuel load from the starboard wing for another half a mile.

12

The origins of Port and Starboard on ships.

Quote examples

1

Run a level five diagnostic of the starboard nacelles!" bloop bloop bloop...

2

Right, that's why one should use "put a strawberry in the portside eye socket" and "put a strawberry in the starboard side socket"

3

This became to be known as “lardboard” which sounded too much like starboard, so it was changed to “Port” (as in the side typically facing the port side.

4

Five projection screens surrounding the ball would project a virtual environment over the "port", "starboard", "fore", "aft", and "north" surfaces.

Proper noun examples

1

Starboard - most sailors were right handed and the steering oar was placed on the right.

2

Reminds me of the Starboard/Larboard nautical terminology.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use starboard in a sentence?

I figured out port and starboard with a little device from sailing school that has never left my head: red ->left->port green->right->starboard.

What does starboard mean?

(nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

What part of speech is starboard?

starboard is commonly used as verb, noun.