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 Definitions for portable: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Portable \Port"a*ble\, a. [L. portabilis, fr. portare to carry:
cf. F. portable. See Port demeanor.]
1. Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported;
conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk,
engine. --South.
[1913 Webster]
2. Possible to be endured; supportable. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
How light and portable my pain seems now! --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Portable forge. See under Forge.
Portable steam engine. See under Steam engine.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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portable
adj 1: easily or conveniently transported; "a portable television
set" [ant: unportable]
2: of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a
boat's hull; "a portable outboard motor"
n : a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it
can be carried
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "portable":
assignable, carriable, communicable, compact, conductive,
consignable, contagious, convenient, conveyable, expressable,
handy, impartable, interchangeable, light, lightweight, little,
mailable, manageable, metathetic, movable, pocket, pocket-sized,
portative, removable, small, transferable, transfusable,
transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable,
transportative, transposable, vest-pocket, wieldy
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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portable
portability
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of
possession.
His light estate, if neither he did make it
Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,
Is portable improperly, I take it.
Worgum Slupsky
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