What is meant by porting an application X to a platform Y ?

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Pretty clear from the title itself, what is meant by porting an application X to a platform Y?

Say for example I have an application X running on some OS, say Y, What do I do to port this application to another OS say Z?
Does this mean rewriting a new application A for Operating system Z that necessarily imitates the behavior of application X on Operating System Y.

Please explain.

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