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portable English
Meaning portable meaning
What does portable mean?
Definitions in simple English
portable
portable
Synonyms portable synonyms
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Topics portable topics
What do people use portable to talk about?
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What words describe something that can move?
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What words describe something that can be carried?
Examples portable examples
How do I use portable in a sentence?
Simple sentences
The device is portable.
Dr. Hawking communicates with the aid of a speech synthesizer and a portable computer.
My portable computer uses Linux.
Tom watched a movie on a portable DVD player.
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The rise of the clock, and later the portable watch, went hand in hand with the rise of Europe and the spread of Western civilization.
Portable machine's in use.
If you came with me, you'd be a sort of portable Casbah.
Or perhaps there are portable bathhouses for people like you. There must be.
I hope that that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
You can send over that portable billiard table anytime you're ready.
It's a pleasure to get out of this portable bathtub.
Mind if I use that portable keyhole?
Seems to me I had a portable phonograph from my freshman days.
Here, major, get on the phone. - Yes? We'll need the largest portable generator that Schenectady makes.
Not the portable reactor?
It's my portable.
Now, a month ago, you called me over here to fix your portable radio because you threw it downstairs.
Where's that portable radio?
May I call monsieur's attention to the fact we are featuring a special sale at reduced prices of raincoats, umbrellas, tennis racquets and portable phonographs.
Next time I'll try and arrange one. Or perhaps there are portable bathhouses for people like you. There must be.
I had a portable phonograph in my freshman days.
In the handy new portable container.
We'll need the largest portable generator that Schenectady makes.
And I can be there with a portable unit long before that.
He carried a portable radio so he could keep up with the games in case she asked him any questions.
Using a portable control panel, my assistant, Mr. Hartwick will bring him in from our laboratory in a demonstration of remote handling without visual aid.
Not even on the portable.
If it were, we'd still be able to get a broadcast on the portable.
Or perhaps there are portable bathhouses for people like you.
Frank's got an old portable downstairs.
We've been celebrating all week -.the candy dish, the portable bar - we won't have any money.
They've all got to go back - the portable bar, the radio.
I'm perfecting an electric guitar with portable battery for serenading.
Beam down a bio-computer and a portable electronic microscope.
For what do people take the portable radio if they don't use it?
We'll have all our portable huts up here before nightfall.
Then get me that old portable cardiostimulator.
Can you lend me your portable TV? - Why?
Ah, there's the little portable devil!
News and current affairs
Devices like small-scale water-filtration systems, portable heart monitors, and low-cost tablet computers are already dramatically improving the lives of the world's poorest citizens and helping to level the economic playing field.
After the inflations of World War I, a prudent investor might have thought gold - easily assessable, portable, and real - an attractive asset.
For fairness as well as for efficiency reasons, rights and benefits should be attached to individuals, not to companies or employment status, and should be fully portable across sectors and jobs.
As computing power has become cheaper and computers have shrunk to the size of smart phones and other portable devices, the decentralizing effects have been dramatic.
Nothing, however, is more portable and easy to move than intellectual capital.
China's policymakers also need to introduce measures to increase labor-force participation rates, rethink wage policy, and make social-insurance programs portable nationwide.
But this overlooks a much more important aspect of the productivity-measurement critique: the undercounting of work time associated with the widespread use of portable information appliances.
Poor traders like Rosalia want real shops, and for some, Namibia Beverages, the local bottling operation of Coca-Cola, is answering the call with sturdy iron cabins that are spacious, portable, and easily secured.
In particular, owing to the hukou (China's antiquated household registration system), access to public services and benefits is not portable.
Similarly, villages have reportedly been denied access to their sole supply of portable water, while the pipeline has seriously threatened the livelihoods of Kribi's fishermen.