portable
/ˈpɔɹtəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Able to be transferred from one organization to another.
adj
Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
noun
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."
Etymology
From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɔɹtəbəl/
- British English: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbəl/