[
UK
/pˈɔːtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɹtəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɹtəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
easily or conveniently transported
a portable television set -
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
How To Use portable In A Sentence
- So in 1997, he built his first portable colposcope -- a battery-powered, head-mounted binocular fashioned from surgical glasses, a bicycle halogen head light and a green camera filter. NewsObserver.com - Home
- There was a little portable television switched on behind the bar.
- I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
- The company said yesterday that that burden had become 'unsupportable in the long term'. Times, Sunday Times
- For the floors above, we can use temporary airsealing floor by floor, and portable equipment; when we have things atmosphered and lighted and heated, you and Martha and Tony Lattimer can go to work systematically and in comfort, and I'll give you all the help I can spare from the other work. Omnilingual
- Some fans continued throwing, hurling their souvenirs, drink cups, beer bottles, batteries, portable radios and cell phones onto the field.
- The latest discs, used for small portable computers, spin 3600 times a minute.
- The department also said that 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been stolen or misplaced since January. Times, Sunday Times
- These portable torches use pressurized tanks of propane and, if handled carelessly, can be hazardous.
- years of research produced no reportable results