Synonyms of the word

porter

• n. A person who carries luggage and related objects.
• n. (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
• n. (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
• n. A person in control of the entrance to a building.
• n. (bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
• n. A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters, similar to a stout but less strong.
• n. (Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
• v. To serve as a porter; to carry.

ale

• n. (dated) A beer made without hops.
• n. A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
• n. A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

composer

• n. One who composes; an author.
• n. Especially, one who composes music.
• n. One who, or that which, quiets or calms.

doorkeeper

• n. The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.

doorman

• n. A man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element…

employee

• n. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.

gatekeeper

• n. A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
• n. A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
• n. A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the Nymphalidae family.

guard

• n. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
• n. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
• n. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
• n. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
• n. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
• n. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
• n. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket;…
• n. (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles,…
• n. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
• n. (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the…
• n. (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution…
• v. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
• v. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
• v. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
• v. To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces,…
• v. To fasten by binding; to gird.

jack

• n. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack,…
• n. A man or men in general.
• n. A male animal.
• n. A male ass.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh…
• n. (cricket) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings, derived from the playing card.
• n. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
• n. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• n. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
• n. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
• n. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• n. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
• n. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
• n. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially)…
• n. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
• n. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• n. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
• n. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• n. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• n. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
• n. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
• n. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
• n. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
• n. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
• v. (transitive) To use a jack.
• v. (transitive) To raise or increase.
• v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice…
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
• v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• n. (slang, baseball) A home run.
• v. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field,…
• n. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• n. A jackfruit tree.

laborer

• n. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

labourer

• n. British spelling standard spelling of laborer.

ostiary

• n. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
• n. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.

writer

• n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
• n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
• n. Anything that writes or produces output.