- anchorage
- basin
- boatyard
- breakwater
- derrick
- dock
- dockyard
- free port
- harbour master
- haven
- marina
- passport control
- port
- quayside
- shipyard
- slip
- superport
- terminal
- the dockside
- wharf
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Meaning of harbor in English
(Definition of harbor from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
harbor | American Dictionary
harbor noun [C] (WATER)
harbor | Business English
Examples of harbor
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Subsequent scenes show teeming streets, construction sites, moving trains, and the bustling harbor.
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These regions harbor many genes, and the task of undertaking fine mapping studies to find the risk variant or variants is onerous.
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Commoners were not the only ones who harbored dubious suspicions.
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This occurs in everyday life when we anthropomorphize pets, ascribing to them states of mind they are unlikely to be in a position to harbor.
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Here we show that oligodendrocytes harbor peroxisomes whose function are essential for maintaining white matter tracts throughout adult life.
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Consequently, infectious disease studies can be greatly affected by selection bias related to the hosts harboring the pathogens under study.
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It is a brilliant description and a clever means of making the transition f rom the ship leaving harbor moving to open sea.
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Considering that academic bioethics is often viewed as a captive of liberal academia, which is presumed to harbor anticapitalist sentiments, this result is ironic.
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A non-volcanic, topographydriven geothermal system, harboring a microbiological community, operates in an extremely cold environment and discharges through solid ice.
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The steamboat, figuring prominently in the title, is merely suggested, the harbor is not evident.
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All those who can afford compliance steer into the safe harbor offered by the r ule.
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Individual convictions, no matter how per vasively they may be harbored, are not the products of formal enactments or authoritative decrees.
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The pilot whale, harbor porpoise, and bottlenosed dolphin are all pelagic animals, which forage at a variety of depths.
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A very large ($2.1 million) rivers and harbors bill, enacted in 1852, funded more than 100 separate projects.
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It is not easy to secure competitiveness in international shipping market without harbor automation, and so many countries are investing in automation for harbor advancement.
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