Porter
 |
Look up porter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Porter may refer to:
Companies
- Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto
- Porter Chemical Company, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets
- Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer
- H.K. Porter, Inc., a locomotive manufacturer
People
- Porter (name), an English surname (including a list of person with the name)
Occupations
- Porter (carrier), a person who carries objects
- Porter (college), a member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Oxford and Durham
- Porter (railroad), a railroad employee who assists passengers at stations
- Pullman porter, a railroad employee who assists passengers on sleeping cars
- Deal porter, a dockworker specializing in handling baulks of softwood
- Doorman (profession), American English for the occupation known in British English as porter
- Groom Porter, official in charge of gambling in the Tudor court; the owner or operator of a gaming hall
- Hospital porter, an assistant in a hospital
- Kitchen porter, a plongeur or marmiton, position in the Brigade de cuisine of a commercial kitchen
- Ostiarius, formerly known as doorkeeper or porter, one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry
Places
Canada
United Kingdom
- Porter Brook, river in Sheffield, England
United States
- Malone-Porter, Washington
- Porter, California
- Porter, Indiana
- Porter, Maine
- Porter, Minnesota
- Porter, New York
- Porter, Ohio
- Porter, Oklahoma
- Porter, Texas
- Porter, West Virginia
- Porter, Wisconsin, a town
- Porter County, Indiana
- Porter Heights, Texas
- Porter's Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
- Porter Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Porter (MBTA station), at that square
- Porter Township, Michigan (disambiguation) (three places)
- Porter Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) (seven places)
Space
Vehicles
- Hyundai Porter, a pickup truck
- Mazda Porter
- Piaggio Porter, electric van
- Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Swiss aircraft
Other uses
- Porter (band), a Mexican indie band
- Porter (beer), a type of beer
- The Porter, a 2004 crime film
- Porter Assay, a method to measure proanthocyanidin (OPC) content of a sample
- Porter College, a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Porter's five forces analysis, a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development
- Porter's generic strategies
- The porter, a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Porter, a character in the Thomas and Friends TV series
See also
- Port
- Miss Porter's School, also known as Porter's, a school in Connecticut, United States
- Porter's Regiment, American Revolutionary War soldiers under a Colonel Porter
- Porters (disambiguation)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.