different between keeper vs porter

English

Etymology

From Middle English kepere, equivalent to keep +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ki?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ki?p?/

• Rhymes: -i?p?(r)

Noun

keeper (plural keepers)

1. One who keeps something.

2. (informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
   • 1970, Field & Stream (volume 75, number 7, page 76)

     "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

   • 2005, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 122, Issues 7-12, page 101,

     When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper.

   • 2008, Jennifer Zomar, A Candle for the Children, page 28,

     We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper.

3. A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.

   • And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4. (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
5. A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
6. (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
7. One who remains or keeps in a place or position.

   • discreet; chaste; keepers at home

   • 1971, H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man

     I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers-to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives […]

8. A fruit or vegetable that keeps for some time without spoiling.
   • c. 1847, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America

     Roxbury Russet: Market and keeper.

   • 1878, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening (volume 35, page 331)

     And mark you, good keepers are some years bad keepers, as this year; and a hard, heavy, unbruisable Apple that really will keep to late on in the season is doubly valuable.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• peeker

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English keeper.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: kee?per
• Rhymes: -ip?r

Noun

keeper m (plural keepers, diminutive keepertje n)

1. (sports) keeper, goalie

Synonyms

• doelman
• doelvrouw

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: keeper

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t?/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po(?)?t?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin port?tor, from past participle of Latin port?re (“to carry”).

Noun

porter (plural porters)

1. A person who carries luggage and related objects.

   By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

2. (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
3. (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).

Noun

porter (plural porters)

1. A person in control of the entrance to a building.
2. (bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
3. A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
4. (Ireland) Stout (malt brew).

Coordinate terms

• (strong, dark ale): beer, stout

Derived terms

• portership

Translations

Verb

porter (third-person singular simple present porters, present participle portering, simple past and past participle portered)

1. To serve as a porter; to carry.

Anagrams

• Perrot, perrot, porret, pretor, proter, report, troper

Catalan

Etymology

From porta or from Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin port?rius, from Latin porta. Compare French portier.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /po??te/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pur?te/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /po??te?/

Noun

porter m (plural porters)

1. doorman, doorkeeper, gatekeeper
2. goalkeeper

Related terms

• porta

French

Etymology 1

From Old French porter, from Latin port?re, present active infinitive of port?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.te/

Verb

porter

1. to carry
2. to support, to bear
3. to wear
4. (transitive with sur) to be about, to concern

5. (reflexive, se porter) to feel, to carry one's self

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From English porter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/
• Homophone: portèrent

Noun

porter m (plural porters)

1. porter (beer)
   • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, XI:

     il […] étancha sa soif avec le porter, cette bière noire qui sent le jus de réglisse dépouillé de sucre.

     He quenched his thirst with some porter, that dark beer which smells of unsweetened liquorice.

Anagrams

• Perrot

Further reading

• “porter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin port?re, present active infinitive of port? (“bring, carry”).

Verb

porter

1. to carry

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Verb

porter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of port?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French porter, from Latin port?, port?re.

Verb

porter

1. to carry

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: porter

Middle English

Alternative forms

• portere, portare, portir, portor, portour, porteour

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman porter, portour, equivalent to port +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?rt?r/, /p?r?t??r/

Noun

porter (plural porters)

1. gatekeeper, doorkeeper

Descendants

• English: porter
• Yola: porther

References

• “port??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Alternative forms

• portaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French porter, from Latin port?, port?re.

Pronunciation

Verb

porter

1. (Jersey) to carry
2. (Jersey) to wear

Derived terms

• porter un coup (“to strike”)
• portchi (“porter”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

porter m

1. indefinite plural of port

Old French

Etymology

From Latin port?re, present active infinitive of port?.

Verb

porter

1. to carry

2. to carry a child (to be pregnant)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• portour

Descendants

• Middle French: porter
  • French: porter