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Ported vs Portend - What's the difference?

ported | portend |

As verbs the difference between ported and portend

is that ported is (port) while portend is to serve as a warning or omen.

As an adjective ported

is (obsolete) having gates.

ported

English

Verb

(head)
  • (port)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Having gates.
  • We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. — Chapman.
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    portend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to serve as a warning or omen
  • * John Milton, Paradise Lost
  • A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
  • to signify; to denote
  • Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended , Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.}}

    Synonyms

    * foreshadow * presage

    See also

    * harbinger