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UK
/pˈɔːʃən/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɹʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɹʃən/ ]
VERB
-
give out
We were assigned new uniforms
NOUN
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an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
the helpings were all small
there's enough for two servings each
his portion was larger than hers -
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
he wanted his share in cash -
something determined in relation to something that includes it
I read a portion of the manuscript
the animal constituent of plankton
he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself
the smaller component is hard to reach -
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot
success that was her portion
deserved a better fate
the luck of the Irish
whatever my fortune may be
a victim of circumstances -
the allotment of some amount by dividing something
death gets more than its share of attention from theologians - money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
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something less than the whole of a human artifact
glue the two parts together
the rear part of the house
How To Use portion In A Sentence
- Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that. Hooting Yard
- In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
- It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The 32-year-old actress spent a large proportion of the week playing cat and mouse with the press.
- Manage the P & L for the Consulting portion of a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients News - chicagotribune.com
- Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
- The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
- _Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
