| 单词 | portable |
| 释义 | portable (once / 1518 pages) adjn If something's portable, you can easily take it with you . You may carry your portable computer with you from class to class because it's small, light, and fits easily in your backpack. First appearing around 1400, portable stems from the Latin word portare, meaning "to carry." Used as an adjective, portable describes something you can carry around easily. Used as a noun, it means a smaller, easy-to-carry version of something, like a computer or television. On a trip, you might take your portable so you can watch movies in the car. Before computers became popular, you might have carried around a lightweight typewriter called a portable. WORD FAMILYportable: portability, portables, portably, unportable USAGE EXAMPLESAlong with the portable scale, he brings a mortar and pestle, and metal scoops for bulk spices. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) According to the National Fire Protection Association, 40 percent of home heating fires and 84 percent of resulting deaths involve stationary or portable space heaters. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) The National Park Service also says it set up portable toilets due to long bathroom lines. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) 1adj easily or conveniently transported a portable television set Syn|Ant man-portable portable by one man movable(of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand) take-away, takeoutof or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises unportable not portable; not easily moved or transported 2adj of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull a portable outboard motor Syn outboard located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft 3n a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried Hyper typewriter hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time |
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