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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
portable
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
portable media player
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ An even more portable computer is produced by Fujitsu Persona.
▪ The first mechanical clocks were large and unwieldy, and there was soon a desire for smaller and more portable mechanisms.
▪ Maybe Rocktron should offer two options: the full road case or the smaller, more portable inner flightcase.
▪ Perhaps he could exchange it for something more portable.
▪ The new version is said to be faster and more portable than previous implementations.
▪ The translation to a more portable programming language is also important for compatibility with the other modules of the recognition system.
▪ Pen-based computers are not only easier to use - they can also be more portable than standard key-board-based machines.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ An even more portable computer is produced by Fujitsu Persona.
▪ Project team members will rent hotel conference rooms for the duration of the project, working on portable computers and call-forwarding.
▪ Grid Computers are the first company to produce a specially designed pen notebook portable computer.
▪ Is your portable computer your favorite traveling companion?
▪ It's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons.
▪ It can even be a cubicle with a phone and a desk upon which you can rest your portable computer.
▪ Tree physiology and dendrochronology are just two of the possible applications for portable computer tomography.
▪ We will have a portable computer down there election night to count the ballots.
phone
▪ The handset looked like an ordinary portable phone, with numbered buttons for dialling.
▪ They cheered when Peter's wife threw his incessantly chirruping portable phone out of the window.
▪ He had his portable phone in a tote-bag if Johnson wanted to call him.
▪ Each man had a portable phone on the table beside him.
radio
▪ From the kitchen Jenny's portable radio began to play a selection of brass-band music.
▪ Del Mar is buying extra portable radios for emergency workers.
▪ Zhang proudly demonstrated his portable radio to us, and said that he would even be buying a bicycle soon.
▪ He lived alone in a log cabin beside the lake, his only company a portable radio and television.
▪ Military uses include controlling small missiles and portable radios.
▪ There was a crackling noise from Doug's portable radio.
telephone
▪ Inside was a portable telephone with a difference.
▪ Diana had accidentally overheard her husband talking on a portable telephone while having a bath.
▪ He held his portable telephone like a shield, it proved his power and superiority.
▪ They stole a portable telephone worth £248, £50 worth of cigarettes and cash totalling £170.
▪ There was a portable telephone on the seat.
▪ Three portable telephones were available for contacting clients.
▪ The gesture belongs to another age, to those pre-recession days of Porsches. portable telephones and Paisley braces.
television
▪ You may want to install a few luxuries like a portable television, radio / cassette player or a telephone extension.
▪ They took a portable television from the vehicle.
toilet
▪ There were portable toilets at the Super Bowl at Stanford in 1985, which was a sellout.
typewriter
▪ He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
▪ Joe sat down at his portable typewriter and pecked out the words as Wallace and Vincent collaborated in dictating the message.
▪ You may find you are expected to use a portable typewriter.
▪ My baby-blue Smith-Corona portable typewriter.
▪ I also carried a small portable typewriter, only slightly younger than I was.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ portable toilets
▪ a portable phone
▪ Greenaway still writes his novels on an old portable typewriter.
▪ There's a portable CD player in the kitchen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ District maintenance workers yanked out the seats and replaced them with portable chairs.
▪ From the kitchen Jenny's portable radio began to play a selection of brass-band music.
▪ However, portable water filters provide another simple alternative.
▪ Install a shower seat or use a portable one.
▪ Of course, for the homeless, they are portable.
▪ One version of the Am586 chip will incorporate special features for portable computers.
▪ Software reliability guru C. K. Cho admonished the industrialist not to think of software as a product but as a portable factory.
▪ There is even a portable unit for home use by people who are too busy to come to the Centre.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You don't need a big TV, why don't you just get a portable?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As if to bear this out, there's been a flood of portables announced recently.
▪ But for pure vanity, the D-777 is the sleekest, kind-of-now portable on the market.
▪ He has six office typewriters and eight portables.
▪ The D-777 is so slim, says Sony, that a digital readout could not be built in as on other portables.
▪ There will also probably be a strong emphasis on chips for portables with battery life being the driving factor in microprocessor design.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portable

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.

  2. Possible to be endured; supportable. [Obs.]

    How light and portable my pain seems now!
    --Shak.

    Portable forge. See under Forge.

    Portable steam engine. See under Steam engine.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
portable

early 15c., from French portable "that can be carried," from Late Latin portabilis "that can be carried," from Latin portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)). Related: Portability.

Wiktionary
portable

a. 1 Able to be carry or easily moved. 2 (context computing English) Of software, able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems. n. 1 A portable toilet; a self-contained outhouse. 2 Any temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school. 3 (context video games English) A hand-held video game device. 4 (context computing English) a portable computer

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WordNet
portable

  1. adj. 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"

portable

n. a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried

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Wikipedia
Portable

Portable may refer to:

  • Portable building, a manufactured structure that is built off site and moved in upon completion of site and utility work
  • Portable classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of capacity
  • Portable toilet, a modern, portable, self-contained outhouse manufactured of molded plastic

In computing:

  • Portable object (computing), a distributed computing term for an object which can be accessed through a normal method call while possibly residing in memory on another computer
  • Software portability, software that can easily be ported to multiple platforms
  • Portable applications, applications that do not require any kind of installation onto a computer, and can store data in the program's directory

In electronics:

  • Portable electronics
  • Portable communications device, a wearable or handheld device
  • Portable audio player, a personal electronic device that allows the user to listen to recorded or broadcast audio whilst being mobile
  • Portable computer, a computer that is designed to be moved from one place to another
    • Compaq Portable series (1982–?)
    • Apricot Portable (1984)
    • IBM Portable Personal Computer (1984)
    • Macintosh Portable (1989–1991) from Apple Computer
  • Handheld game console, a lightweight, portable electronic machine for playing video games

In film

  • Portable Film Festival at Portable.tv

In music:

  • Portable Life, a 1999 album by Danielle Brisebois
  • Portable Sounds a 2007 album by TobyMac.
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Usage examples of "portable".

She stared at the portable lab and X-ray machine, their related processors, and the latest in alloplastic and autogenous grafting materials in refrigerated cases.

Monday morning and planted a heap of papers on his desk: sketch-plans, preliminary figures worked out on my portable analogue computer, estimates, the lot.

They snapped a portable respirator around his chest and injected a general antivenom into his heart.

The family had been founded four generations before when a brilliant designer had made his trillions, building among other things one of the first portable triple-lobe astrographic instruments.

PORTABLE AIRLOCK - LATER Barnes labors over the robot, the innards exposed, with an Allen wrench, Ted hovering over him.

These articles, being generally light and portable, and constructed of delicate parts, can as well be classed with basketry as with wattle work.

These blocks of shadows on the polished wood, like the bodies themselves, remained immobile as the stunned faces attached to those bodies stared in astonishment at the gaunt, bespectacled man who stood behind the President in front of a portable blackboard on which he had drawn numerous diagrams using four different colours of chalk.

Major Burin, the communications officer, practiced calling square-dance tunes, accompanied by the screeching fiddle music he played on his portable tape recorder.

Brotherhood gathered in the barn and looked on as the big German ex-commando explained the operation of the portable hydrogenator in halting English.

Newly promoted General Abunnasr Manesh paced back and forth behind Fassan Tabriz, a young communications specialist operating the portable gear stationed inside the only air-conditioned bunker on the base, a necessity for all the state-of-the-art radio equipment.

His portable cassette recorder was playing a mutilated tape of mariachi music.

Karrde stayed out of the activity, retreating back to his seat by the tree with a portable melodium and leaving Tapper to handle their share of the work.

Tana and Estrela were working together on rock studies, Estrela chipping the outer surfaces off of rocks and Tana pressing the portable X-ray crystallography unit onto the freshly exposed surface to map the microcrystalline structure.

In the nineteenth century, according to information collected by his agents, this monstrously heavy bronze piece had been a portable sundial, the property of a fabled English explorer named Strongbow who was said to have been the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the century.

After making a diagnosis he, would then prescribe medicine according to the hours he read on his portable sundial, a monstrously heavy bronze piece which he wore on his hip.