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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
portion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sizeable proportion/portion/minority (of sth)
▪ Part-time students make up a sizeable proportion of the college population.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ Waterlilies and other deep-water aquatics grow in the deeper central portion of the pool.
▪ The central portion of the house was two stories high, flanked by two cloistered arcades.
▪ The disk is often damaged with the central portion of the disk missing.
▪ Then we lived in all this central portion.
considerable
▪ However, there are 26,000 empty council houses, a considerable portion of which could be brought back into use.
▪ Beginning in fourth grade, students are expected to spend a considerable portion of the academic day working independently.
▪ Stone and brick buildings were initiated of which considerable portions exist.
▪ A considerable portion of the temple still stands and, even in its ruined condition, presents a most impressive sight.
▪ A considerable portion of his time is devoted to promoting the study of the foreign language, literature, or culture.
generous
▪ Lily helped herself to the two smallest slices and a generous portion of the crispy brown bubble and squeak.
▪ The chicken, a generous quarter portion, is glazed lightly with an orange sauce.
▪ If you have liver or a generous portion of a soya product at least once a week this will help.
▪ When available, parts from male fryers provide more generous portions than parts from female fryers.
▪ The low prices and generous portions account for the ubiquitous lines, which almost always extend out the door.
▪ It boasts an overly generous portion of violence.
▪ Spoon a generous portion of salsa on the other side of the plate and place grilled eggplant on top of salsa.
good
▪ A good portion of yesterday's volumes reflected activity by market makers, getting their trading books just as flat as possible.
▪ Any combat soldier who lived through a good portion of his tour experienced one or more proper fire-fights.
▪ Everyone used to fight to get to the front of the queue, as that way you usually got better portions.
▪ There was nothing so fine as a good meaty portion of best blood sausage.
large
▪ A large portion of the State's scarce resources was absorbed in upholding the serf-owners' authority and subsidizing their income.
▪ This covers a large portion of flat land and could take the largest planes available, even by today's standards.
▪ Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups.
▪ Had her internal regulator failed her and allowed in a larger portion than she could handle?
▪ Do you serve yourself large portions?
▪ For example, Levi Strauss, makers of jeans for the whole world, has networked a large portion of its being.
low
▪ Details of decorative paintwork were visible on his left side although only the lower portion of the work could be seen clearly.
▪ Defects of body in ge may be more likely with a stroke centered in the lower portions of the parietal lobe.
▪ Another important result was that the lower portion of the upper layer was not producing.
▪ The tailgate opens in two sections: The upper portion is glass and hinges up, the lower portion folds down.
▪ It has a low fibre content and a low portion weight, so its fibre contribution to the average diet is negligible.
▪ You refer to a map and monitor your health and energy by viewing two bars on the lower portion of the screen.
▪ Fifty to 60 crypts from each case were divided into upper and lower portions.
major
▪ More than 95% of the bile acids are then reabsorbed, the major portion by active uptake in the distal ileum.
▪ In this chapter we will take up the first two topics, which constitute a major portion of semantics.
significant
▪ Certain villages were strongholds of cattle thieves and their residents derived a significant portion of their incomes from the cattle trade.
▪ That represented a significant portion of the $ 11. 95 million net worth he reported at the time.
▪ Bones are counted as complete if they include significant portions of all three segments.
▪ That could lead to losses of a significant portion of the 100, 000 tons of city-generated waste handled by county landfills.
▪ Improving Computational Models A significant portion of neural network research centers on the improvement of computational models.
small
▪ A small portion of the scene showing the couple with the cart flaked away and broke on the floor.
▪ A higher P / E ratio means that the shareholders would get a smaller portion.
▪ But the relatively small civil service portion could sail through, if Republicans sign on to them.
▪ Tragedy, disaster; they moulded them into small, digestible portions.
▪ If you include dairy foods, use low-fat versions, and only small portions.
▪ They normally use a small portion of the stroke intuitively combined with other moves and manoeuvres.
▪ They represent a small portion of the total plasma lipids and are transported in the plasma by albumin.
substantial
▪ After Edward II's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates.
▪ What the networks are offering, Black said, is a substantial portion of their news programming.
▪ The substantial portion of £18,000 doubtless reflected interalia the disparity of age: Mary Banks was thirty, John Savile twenty-two.
▪ Net and who is said to own a substantial portion of the company, will become chairman.
▪ A finance lease lasts for a substantial portion of the life of an asset.
▪ They are also privatizing substantial portions of their socialized economies.
▪ In a partnership a trader was required to keep a substantial portion of his wealth in the firm.
▪ Parents also pay substantial portions of state and local taxes that support public schools and universities.
tiny
▪ It has nothing to do with their bodies but simply means that they represent only a tiny portion of the population.
▪ Yet these represent a relatively tiny portion of the uses for solar power.
upper
▪ Through its glass upper portion he could see the pale figure lying still in the bed.
▪ The tailgate opens in two sections: The upper portion is glass and hinges up, the lower portion folds down.
▪ Fifty to 60 crypts from each case were divided into upper and lower portions.
▪ These are part of the fascination of the reef; the sunlit upper portions are rich in life.
■ VERB
divide
▪ Each micro-instruction is divided into two portions, the control bits and the sequencing bits.
▪ A Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up.
▪ They are divided into five portions.
▪ Again, this starts from a point of origin and is divided into equal portions.
pay
▪ Most of the breakers kept a portion for themselves, knowing that the unlucky punter would eventually pay that portion once again.
▪ Price Pfister is paying the largest portion of the settlement because it has the largest market share.
▪ The problem is that the patient often has to pay a portion of the cost for the community based services.
▪ For elderly who live off less than $ 15,000, the government would pay a portion of the drug coverage fees.
▪ That left her paying her full premium to Partners without her employer paying any portion of it.
▪ By contrast, traditional indemnity health insurance pays a large portion of the bill for whatever medical care patients seek.
▪ Parents also pay substantial portions of state and local taxes that support public schools and universities.
receive
▪ After Edward II's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates.
▪ What is more several of the children seem to have inherited her command and confidence, with Eva receiving a double portion.
▪ For example, they may receive the same diet portion of the experiment but not the exercise portion.
▪ They would receive a portion of their Social Security benefit depending on how long they were in the system.
represent
▪ That represented a significant portion of the $ 11. 95 million net worth he reported at the time.
▪ It has nothing to do with their bodies but simply means that they represent only a tiny portion of the population.
▪ Yet these represent a relatively tiny portion of the uses for solar power.
▪ As a result each share represents a smaller portion of the company, and the share price falls.
▪ They represent a small portion of the total plasma lipids and are transported in the plasma by albumin.
serve
▪ Do you serve yourself large portions?
▪ Papa Cristos Taverna serves huge portions at low prices.
▪ Jenkins, then 30, already had served portions of two sentences for burglary.
spend
▪ Who spends his portion will be broke.
▪ Beginning in fourth grade, students are expected to spend a considerable portion of the academic day working independently.
▪ Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups.
▪ Members of the Monodactylidae family are marine fish that spend a portion of their lives in fresh or brackish water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A major portion of the budget is spent on defence.
▪ Fuel is carried in the lower portion of the rocket.
▪ Most of the profit goes to the retailer; some goes to the middleman, and the remaining portion goes to the producer.
▪ My mother always gave the boys bigger portions than she gave me.
▪ Surgeons have had to remove portions of his stomach and intestine.
▪ The money should be shared out in equal portions between all members of the family.
▪ The research suggests we only use a small portion of our brains at any one time.
▪ Two portions of French fries please.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each such portion may be replaced by another portion which is deemed to be equal to it according to the list.
▪ In a flood of tears, some my own, she presented me with four frozen chicken portions.
▪ In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
▪ It boasts an overly generous portion of violence.
▪ Of course, a basic corollary of the theory is that deep drilling should uncover a portion of these massive methane resources.
▪ She is concerned about the size of the portions of food I eat.
▪ The Central Area pulled all these parts together, as it were, and made them interdependent portions of the whole.
▪ Thus housekeeping allowances might bear little relation to the portion of the husband's net income devoted to collective expenditure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portion

Portion \Por"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Portioning.]

  1. To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.

    And portion to his tribes the wide domain.
    --Pope.

  2. To endow with a portion or inheritance.

    Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.
    --Pope.

Portion

Portion \Por"tion\, n. [F., from L. portio, akin to pars, partis, a part. See Part, n.]

  1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

  2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.

    These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him!
    --Job xxvi. 14.

    Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
    --Tennyson.

  3. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.

    The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
    --Luke xii. 46.

    Man's portion is to die and rise again.
    --Keble.

  4. 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.

    Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
    --Luke xv. 12.

  5. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
    --Shak.

    Syn: Division; share; parcel; quantity; allotment; dividend.

    Usage: Portion, Part. Part is generic, having a simple reference to some whole. Portion has the additional idea of such a division as bears reference to an individual, or is allotted to some object; as, a portion of one's time; a portion of Scripture.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
portion

early 14c., "allotted part, share," from Old French porcion "part, portion" (12c., Modern French portion) and directly from Latin portionem (nominative portio) "share, part," accusative of the noun in the phrase pro portione "according to the relation (of parts to each other)" (see proportion). From late 14c. in general sense of "section into which something is divided."

portion

"to divide in portions," early 14c., from Old French porcioner "share out, divide in portions," from porcion (see portion (n.)). Related: Portioned; portioning.

Wiktionary
portion

n. 1 An allocated amount. 2 That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 3 One's fate; lot. 4 The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance. 5 A wife's fortune; a dowry. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes. 2 (context transitive English) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

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WordNet
portion

  1. n. something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach" [syn: part, component part, component]

  2. something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" [syn: part]

  3. the result of parcelling out or sharing; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologicans" [syn: parcel, share]

  4. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" [syn: share, part, percentage]

  5. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances]

  6. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each" [syn: helping, serving]

portion

v. give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign, allot]

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Wikipedia
Portion

Portion may refer to:

  • Dominant portion, in real estate appraising
  • " Portions for Foxes", an indie rock song
  • Marriage portion, another term for dowry.
  • Portion (food), regarding food
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Usage examples of "portion".

As the particles which the creatures devour are rather small, the tendency is to accumulate the finer portions of the soil near the surface of the earth, where by solution they may contribute to the needs of the lowly plants.

During this precarious state of the supreme power, a difference would immediately be experienced between those portions of territory which were subjected to the feudal tenures, and those which were possessed by an allodial or free title.

These victorious Saracens enjoyed at Damascus a month of pleasure and repose: the spoil was divided by the discretion of Abu Obeidah: an equal share was allotted to a soldier and to his horse, and a double portion was reserved for the noble coursers of the Arabian breed.

The hill itself was formed of talus, covered with alluvium, all but a small portion of which was subsequently cut away, leaving an almost vertical face 15 or 18 feet high.

Quickly and with the strength of my annoyance did I use the haft portion of the spear to rap sharply at the shin of first Ceralt and then Mehrayn, ending their exchange and sending them back from each other with yelps of pain.

All-Soul being whittled down into fragments, yet this is what they would be doing, annulling the All-Soul--if any collective soul existed at all--making it a mere piece of terminology, thinking of it like wine separated into many portions, each portion, in its jar, being described as a portion of the total thing, wine.

Soon after bunches of white hair appeared on the occiput, and in the succeeding years small patches of decolored hairs were observed also on the anterior and lateral portions of the scalp.

There was only one heel, but the anterior portion consisted of an anterior and a posterior part.

Quality: reason has, so to speak, appropriated a portion of Reality, that portion manifest to it on the surface.

A portion of an L-shaped cluster west of this row, and a small row near it parallel to the main building, form a rude approximation to the inclosed court arrangement.

It is a matter of endless debate whether a novel should have an ethical purpose, or whether it should merely be an attempt to present beautifully any portion of truth clearly perceived, faithfully observed, delicately grouped, and artistically isolated.

When he came back he bore with him beautiful bunches of ferns of many kinds-Hymenophyllum and Asplenium, portions of the fronds of the Dicksonia, the Adiantum, the Alsophila, excelsa, the Umbrella fern, the Acrostichurn and others.

The greater portion of the nutriment assimilated, is required for growth and organic development, and they can ill afford its expenditure for mental manifestations.

On the far eastern islands like Ambon and the Indonesian portion of New Guinea the people are, in varying degrees, of Melanesian ancestry.

Finally, he pulled out a stack of contracts and a large map of the area that had been folded and refolded so that it only showed the portion of Angustias that would be affected by the planned construction.