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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Portable \Port"a*ble\, adjective [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) 2.0 [wn]:
portable
adjective
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"
noun: 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, adjective 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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