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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun porthole has 2 senses

• porthole(n = noun.artifact) Array - a window in a ship or airplane; Array
has parts: deadlight
is a part of fuselage, ship
is a kind of window

• porthole(n = noun.artifact) embrasure, port - an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through; Array
is a kind of opening

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THESAURUS

porthole

air hole, armhole, bay, bay window, blowhole, bow window, bullet-hole, bunghole, casement, casement window, cringle, deadeye, eye, eyelet, fan window, fanlight, gasket, grille, grommet, guide, keyhole, knothole, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, loop, loophole, louver window, manhole, mousehole, oriel, pane, peephole, picture window, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, port, punch-hole, rose window, skylight, spiracle, tap, transom, vent, venthole, wicket, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane

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porthole

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

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