Translation for "port-hole" to spanish

Port-hole

noun

• porta
• portilla
• tronera

Translation examples

porta noun

Boots are throwing an off-probation party tonight. At port hole.
Boot esta montando una fiesta esta noche en Port Hole.

Each of these storeys was supplied with a couple of pieces of cannon and four port-holes, so that the cannon could be trained in any direction to resist attack.
Cada uno de estos pisos estaba provisto de un par de piezas de cañón, y cuatro portas, a fin de que el cañón pudiera ser dirigido en cualquier dirección para resistir un ataque.

The roll of films being thrown through a port-hole in the middle of the night by some steward who ought to have known better.
The roll of films being thrown through a port-hole in the middle of the night by some steward who ought to have known better.

'Ten port-holes I see on this side,' he went on, 1and no doubt there are ten more on the other, which makes the same number of guns as she is alleged to carry, for once.
–Veo diez portas en este lado -continuó- y, sin duda, habrá diez más en el otro, así que, por lo menos en este caso, el número real de cañones coincide con el que se le atribuye al navío.

every tiny port-hole, even the oars in the tiny shore-boats behind the tall funnel, their seats and internal ribs thinner than match-sticks.
every tiny port-hole, even the oars in the tiny shore-boats behind the tall funnel, their seats and internal ribs thinner than match-sticks.

When he shone his under-sea torch through the port-hole of the bathysphere, one of its two occupants had disappeared—leaving the other with a knife in his back!
When he shone his under-sea torch through the port-hole of the bathysphere, one of its two occupants had disappeared -- leaving the other with a knife in his back!

portilla noun

Through the port-holes I beheld an unruffled, sun-smitten horizon.
A través del portillo vi un horizonte tranquilo, inundado de sol.

Seen through the port-hole, it was like watching a neat CGI trick downloaded from a file-sharing site.
Visto a través de la portilla era como observar un prolijo truco CGI descargado de un sitio de archivos compartidos.

At the port-hole giving into the aft cabin there was movement as the hanging was drawn aside, and for an instant a luminous eye looked down at them.
Hubo un movimiento en la portilla que daba a la cabina de popa cuando la cortina fue echada a un lado, y por un instante un ojo luminoso les miró.

He turned away then from the port-hole, and came and sat down on the bunk beside her, still whistling the song under his breath.
El francés se alejó del portillo y se sentó en la litera, al lado de Dona, silbando todavía la canción.

Glancing out of the port-hole as she parted her hair she saw away on the starboard bow the spars of La Mouette, gleaming scarlet in the sun.
Miró por el portillo mientras se hacía la raya del pelo y vio a lo lejos, por estribor, los palos de La Mouette, rojos y brillantes al sol.

He got up from the table, and crossing to the port-hole looked out at La Mouette where she lay almost becalmed some two miles distant.
El francés se levantó de la mesa y cruzó hasta el portillo para ver La Mouette, que se encontraba en perfecta calma a unas dos millas de distancia.

A smell of cooking came from the galley of the Merry Fortune, the warm brown smell of roasting chicken, and the fragrance of it crept into the open port-hole of the cabin, mingling with the fresh salt air and the warm sun.
Un olor de comida salía de los fogones del Merry Fortune, el aroma tostado y caliente de pollo asado, que se coló en el camarote por el portillo abierto, mezclado con el aire salado y el cálido sol.

it had been stuck crooked into an alien frame--a liner going down in a blaze of all lights on, decks and port-holes shining, one half already plunged in the black ocean, the other reared up against the sky.
Representaba un buque yéndose a pique con todas las luces encendidas, la cubierta y las portillas brillantes, una mitad ya hundida en las negras aguas del océano, la otra levantada y recortada contra el cielo.

Glennard found himself in the case of the seafarer who, closing his eyes at nightfall on a scene he thinks to put leagues behind him before day, wakes to a port-hole framing the same patch of shore.
Glennard se vio de pronto en la situación del marinero que cierra los ojos al anochecer y sueña con avanzar las máximas leguas posibles antes de que llegue el día, y que cuando los abre y mira por la portilla no encuentra más que la misma franja de costa.

tronera noun

A hatch opened at the base, flooding the hangar with light from the craft’s interior—the ship had no need for port-holes—and Krupp stepped up two inset rungs and entered to inspect.
Una escotilla abierta en la base inundaba el hangar con la luz procedente del interior del vehículo —la nave no necesitaba troneras—. Krupp subió dos peldaños y entró.

But whatever be their explanation, be it a fierce neighbour, or be it a climatic change, there they stand, these grim and silent cities, and up on the hills you can see the graves of their people, like the port-holes of a man-of-war.
Pero, cualquiera que sea la explicación exacta, ya fuese a consecuencia de vecinos guerreros o por los cambios climáticos, allí permanecen convertidas en ruinas adustas y silenciosas, y se pueden ver todavía en las laderas de las colinas las tumbas de sus habitantes, parecidas a troneras de cañones de un buque de guerra.