mindmap root((PORT)) portage The carrying of boats or goods overland from one body of water to another; also, a regular route for such carrying.
🌱The only portage on the whole canoe route would be the one around the great waterfall on our second day. 🌳Portage was borrowed from French back in the 15th century to mean "carrying, transporting" or "freight," and it has kept its simple "carrying" sense to the present day. But its first known use in its "carrying of boats" sense came in 1698, and the obstacle that the canoes couldn't be steered over was none other than Niagara Falls. Though canoes are much lighter today than they used to be, a long portage that includes a lot of camping gear can still test a camper's strength. portfolio 1、 A flat case for carrying documents or artworks.
2、 The investments owned by a person or organization.
🌱In those days, a graphic artist who had recently moved to New York would just schlep his portfolio around to every magazine office in the city. 🌳Portfolio is partly based on the Latin folium, meaning "leaf, sheet." A portfolio usually represents a portable showcase of your talents. Today actual portfolios are used less than they used to be by artists, since most commercial artists have a Web site dedicated to showing off their art. But portfolio in its other common meaning is extremely common. Not so long ago, a broker would keep each of his or her clients' investments in a separate notebook or portfolio. Today the investment portfolio, like an artist's portfolio, usually takes the form of a Web page, even though everyone still uses the same old word. comport 1、 To be in agreement with.
2、 To behave.
🌱This new evidence comports with everything we know about what happened that night. 🌳With its prefix com-, "with," the Latin word comportare meant "to bring together." So it's easy to see how in English we could say that a college's policy comports with state law, or that a visit to your parents doesn't comport with your other weekend plans, or that your aunt and uncle won't listen to anything on TV that doesn't comport with their prejudices. The "behave" sense of the word comes through French, and its essential meaning is how a person "carries" him- or herself. So you may say, for instance, that your 17-year-old comported himself well （for once!） at the wedding reception, or that an ambassador always comports herself with dignity—that is, her comportment is always dignified—or that your class comported itself in a way that was a credit to the school. deportment Manner of conducting oneself socially.
🌱At social events she would constantly sneak glances at Alexandra, in quiet admiration of her elegant and graceful deportment. 🌳We've all seen pictures of girls walking around balancing books on their heads in an effort to achieve the poise of a princess or a film star. Classes in deportment were once a standard part of a young lady's upbringing, offered in all the girls' colleges; and you can still take private deportment classes, where you'll learn about posture and body language, how to move, sit, stand, shake hands, dress, drink and eat, and much more. But deportment isn't all about refined female grace. In fact, deport is often used as a synonym for comport, but usually in a positive way; thus, people are often said to deport themselves well, confidently, with dignity, like gentlemen or ladies, and so on.