Portable

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. Possible to be endured; supportable. [Obs.]
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              How light and portable my pain seems now! --Shak.
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     {Portable forge}. See under {Forge}.
  
     {Portable steam engine}. See under {Steam engine}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  portable
       
          {portability}
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  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