portage

Meanings

• noun

  The act of carrying goods from one place to another, especially over a long distance, typically by using a series of watercraft or vehicles.

  - "During the fur trade, portage was a crucial aspect of transportation."
  - "The canoeists had to make several portages around rapids and waterfalls."

• noun

  The transfer of goods or data from one medium or system to another.

  - "The company underwent a major portage of its data to a new cloud platform."
  - "The user must perform a portage of files from the old computer to the new one."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with portage
fortage , forage , storage

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Variants

List of all variants of portage that leads to same result
portage , portages , portaged , portaging , Portage , Grand Portage National Monument

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Etymology

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From Old French 'portage', from porter 'to carry'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'portage' comes from the Old French word 'porter', meaning 'to carry'.

2. During the fur trade, portages were crucial for transportation due to the presence of rapids and waterfalls that made it impossible to navigate canoes upstream.

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Related Concepts

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1. Carrying: The act of transporting goods from one place to another.

2. Fur trade: Historical trade of furs, primarily beaver pelts, between European traders and indigenous peoples in North America.

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Culture

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Portage has significant cultural and historical significance in various contexts, such as the fur trade, transportation, and data migration.

How to Memorize "portage"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine carrying heavy goods from one body of water to another. Visualize the process of transferring the goods from one vessel to another.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'portage' with the image of people carrying heavy loads between bodies of water.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by remembering the phrase 'Portage: People Overcoming Transportation Aggravations'.

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