Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word POORT

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Definitions of POORT

1. (South Africa) A mountain pass.

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Examples of Using POORT in a Sentence

• Bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde, the municipality of Almere comprises six official areas that are the districts of Almere Stad (which is further split up into Almere Stad Oost, Almere Stad West and Almere Centrum), Almere Buiten and Almere Pampus (which is currently being designed), and the boroughs of Almere Haven, Almere Hout and Almere Poort.
• In the south of Lingewaard lies the rewilding area Gelderse Poort, which is managed by Staatsbosbeheer.
• File:Het kasteel "Hof ter Linden", algemeen zicht met smeedijzeren Louis XVI poort - 354772 - onroerenderfgoed.
• Dilbeek is located just outside the Brussels-Capital Region (and is part of the city's urban sprawl, contiguous with Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Moortebeek (Anderlecht) and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean) in the Pajottenland, hence the local name Poort van het Pajottenland (Gate to the Pajottenland).
• In the south of Bemmel (outside the dykes) lies Dutch rewilding area the Gelderse Poort, which is managed by Staatsbosbeheer.
• Other local attractions include the old windmill Ter Panne, and the Groene Poort castle, Dudzeelse steenweg 460 (now called Château Rougesse).
• Wredulia: An evil witch who appears in the stories "De Poort naar oost" ("The Gate to East") and "De Schacht naar noord" ("The Shaft to North").
• In January 1611, Robinson, William Jepson, Henry Wood, and Robinson's sister-in-law Jane White, signed a contract to purchase for 8,000 guilders property called the "Groene Poort" or Green Gate near the Pieterskerk (St Peter's Church) and within short walking distance of the University of Leiden.
• The mountain is intersected by two defiles, the Waterpoort in the west, containing the Sand River (Polokwane) and a railway line, and Wyllie's Poort, which allows N1 road traffic to pass from Louis Trichardt to Musina.
• These 150‑million-year-old rivers therefore cut the defile, starting by flowing over, and then through the gradually erupting Cape Fold Mountains, to form the spectacular "poorte" and "klowe" (plural of "poort" and "kloof", the Afrikaans for defile or chasm) that characterize these mountains today.
• Elands River Poort, a mountain pass located on the Karoo, 24 km to the NNW of Tarkastad, where the Battle of Elands River (1901) was fought during the Second Boer War.
• In 2019, Jansen and Poort had already performed the song in the Dutch TV show Beste Zangers, to much critical acclaim.
• A specimen of Protea aristata was first collected by the South African botanists Thomas Pearson Stokoe and Richard Primos as a budding branch in the 'Seven Weeks Poort Mountains', near the town of Ladismith in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
• He has collaborated with a lot of other musicians like Ernst-Daniël Smid, Vicki Brown, Berdien Stenberg, Marco Bakker, Ben Cramer, Kamahl, Henk Poort, Marjolein Keuning, Margriet Eshuijs and Cor Bakker.
• In 2019 Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen performed Phantom of the Opera with Poort for the Dutch TV show Beste Zangers.
• Within the Howiesons Poort layers, however, there is considerably more raw material diversity through the additions of quartz, silcrete, hornfels and chalcedony.
• The poort was named after a "Mr Howison" but it was misspelt by Stapleton and Hewitt as Howieson and their error has been used ever since for the stone tool industry named after it.
• File:Overzicht poort naar voorste gedeelte fort met zicht op poort naar de trappartij - Shama - 20375019 - RCE.
• Poort alongside Rhys Mainstone, Wallace Eggleton, George O'Brien, Ollie Signorini and Peter Thiel hold the record in 2.
• Its western origin is a point on the R521 road between Alldays and Polokwane (Pietersburg), and from there, it runs to the N1 at Wyllie's Poort pass.

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