Meaning

Able to be carried or easily moved..

Definitions by Sense

1. Able to be carried or easily moved.
2. Able to be transferred from one organization to another.
3. (computing) Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
4. (computing) Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
5. (obsolete) Bearable, endurable.
6. A portable building used for temporary purposes, particularly:
7. (computing) Clipping of portable computer.
8. (video games) A hand-held video gaming device.

Example Sentences

a portable pension plan

Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable.

How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same?

Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit.

How light and portable my paine ſeemes now, / When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow.

Christianity consists in a blessed exchange of yokes between Christ and a pious soul. He takes our uneasy yoke, and gives his easy yoke: the soul puts upon him that unsupportable yoke of transgressions, and takes from him the portable yoke of his commandments.

It was also objected against John Chrystie in Spittell that he not being ane residenter within this burgh could not vote. To quhich it was answered that he is ane burges of the burgh and hes borne portable burding with the remanent burgesses these xxiiij yeares bygone.

[N]one be choſen to be upon the Council but Magiſtrats and Craftſmen, actual and real Burgeſſes dwelling within the Town, and bearing all portable charges within the ſame; […]

Word Forms

• more portable
• most portable
• portables

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Use portable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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