Portion
['pɔːʃ(ə)n] or ['pɔrʃən]
Definition
(n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
(n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
(n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
(n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
(n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
(v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
(v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
Typed by Juan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Part, piece, fragment, bit, scrap, morsel.[2]. Share, allotment, division, parcel, lot, quantity, dividend, quota, contingent.
v. a. [1]. Divide, allot, deal out, distribute, parcel out.[2]. Endow, supply with a portion.
Typist: Vilma
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PART]
Editor: Sheldon
Definition
n. a part: an allotment: fate: destiny: dividend: the part of an estate descending to an heir: a wife's fortune.—v.t. to divide into portions: to allot a share: to furnish with a portion.—adj. Por′tioned having a portion or endowment.—ns. Por′tioner one who portions or assigns shares: (Scots law) the occupier of a small feu or portion of land: one of two or more incumbents on a benefice at one time; Por′tionist one who has an academical allowance: the incumbent of a benefice which has more than one rector or vicar.—adj. Por′tionless having no portion dowry or property.—Marriage portion a gift given by a parent or guardian to a bride on her marriage.
Typist: Sam
Examples
- The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Dana, then an officer of the War Department, accompanied me on the Vicksburg campaign and through a portion of the siege. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The whole atmosphere could not consist of such groups of three because the watery particles were but a small portion of the total a tmosphere. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But come, I will lift a portion of the veil, and place you in possession of facts which may be of use to you in the future. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical condition of health. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A large part of the remaining portions of the book read like good Scripture, however. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The object now is subjected to the blast, and as the sand will not penetrate a softened material sufficient to abrade a surface beneath, the exposed portions alone will be cut away. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The rovings at one end were attached to the spindles and their opposite portions held together and drawn out by a clasp held in the hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The portions were handed round; those who liked took a draught of the water, the mug being common to all. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All the portions covered with black are, on the contrary, absolutely invisible in the glass, and the spectators cannot see that they exist. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Accuracy and finish of detail can be insisted upon in such portions of a complex work as are within the pupil's capacity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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