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Ported vs Presage - What's the difference?

ported | presage |

As verbs the difference between ported and presage

is that ported is past tense of port while presage is to predict or foretell something.

As an adjective ported

is having gates.

As a noun presage is

a warning of a future event; an omen.

ported

English

Verb

(head)
  • (port)
  • Adjective

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

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    presage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A warning of a future event; an omen.
  • An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
  • Verb

    (presag)
  • To predict or foretell something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}
  • To make a prediction.
  • To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
  • Synonyms

    * foreshadow * portend