Portable
['pɔːtəb(ə)l] or ['pɔrtəbl]
Definition
(noun.) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried.
(adj.) of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull; 'a portable outboard motor' .
(adj.) easily or conveniently transported; 'a portable television set' .
Typist: Murray--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
(a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.
Typist: Veronica
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Movable, light, handy, convenient, easily transported.
Inputed by Cornelia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Movable, {[haLdy]?}, manageable, light
ANT:Ponderous, immovable, awkward, unmanageable, unhandy
Inputed by Jules
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.
Checked by Barlow
Examples
- Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gold, then as now, was the most precious and therefore most portable, security. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then is it your opinion, I inquired, with some little indignation, that a man should never-- --Invest portable property in a friend? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And I saw Wemmick's lips form the words portable property. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Unless he wants to get rid of the friend,--and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This portable Diorama can be most conveniently shown by lamplight, the flame of an argand lamp, the wick of which can be heightened and lowered, being best adapted for the purpose. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- We ought to have portable short wave transmitters. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Small portable clocks, the progenitors of the modern watch, commenced to appear about 1500. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She might have been some two or three years younger than Wemmick, and I judged her to stand possessed of portable property. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As far as it goes, it's property and portable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What I look at is the sacrifice of so much portable property. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What are you crying over me for, you portable engine? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is a gas made from oil and compressed in storage cylinders by means of pumps for portable use. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They may not be worth much, but, after all, they're property and portable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Carrying a portable chemical apparatus for his studies, Sir Humphrey and Lady Davy went first to Scotland, and then to France, Italy, and Germany. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Manfred