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portable |
4 definitions found 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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