Definition of Portable

Portable

Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.

Possible to be endured; supportable.

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Portable Quotations

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Robert Smithson

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
Jay Chiat

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
David Ogden Stiers

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
Dolley Madison

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
Clint Black

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
Ian Jackson

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Portable Translations

portable in Dutch is draagbaar, portable
portable in French is allant
portable in German is tragbar
portable in Italian is mobile
portable in Norwegian is transportabel
portable in Swedish is flyttbar, portabel

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