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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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
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