Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
- noun A part separated from a whole.
- noun A part that is allotted to a person or group, as.
- noun A helping of food.
- noun The part of an estate received by an heir.
- noun A woman's dowry.
- noun A person's lot or fate.
- transitive verb To divide into parts or shares for distribution; parcel.
- transitive verb To provide with a share, inheritance, or dowry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divide or distribute into portions or shares; parcel; allot in shares.
- To endow with a portion or an inheritance.
- noun A part of a whole, whether separated from it, or considered by itself though not actually separated.
- noun A part assigned or contributed; a share; an allowance or allotment; hence, a helping at table.
- noun Lot; fate; destiny.
- noun The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, or to be distributed to him in the settlement of the estate.
- noun A wife's fortune; a dowry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
- noun A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
- noun A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
- noun The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
- noun A wife's fortune; a dowry.
- transitive verb To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
- transitive verb To endow with a portion or inheritance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
allocated amount. - verb transitive To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
- verb transitive To
endow with a portion orinheritance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- noun assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- noun the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- noun an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
- verb give out
- noun something determined in relation to something that includes it
- noun money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- noun something less than the whole of a human artifact
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So at the end of the day, the onus is on the buyers to decide whether they are comfortable with the term "portion of the proceeds," and whether they choose to bid on items that not only support charity, but benefit a celebrity's bank account even more.
FOXNews.com Hollie McKay 2012
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The main portion is he never spoke about or cared about Healthcare until he was running for president.
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Over time, the term portion of the policy is replaced with whole life.
Dan Solin: Products Your Stock Broker and Insurance Agent Hope You'll Never Consider 2009
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Generally, the term portion has a lower commission rate.
Dan Solin: Products Your Stock Broker and Insurance Agent Hope You'll Never Consider 2009
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With the delightful exception of Buster Keaton, the “entertainment” a euphemism portion of the program—the guests and the games and the giddiness—all had to take place between and around the inviolate core of our show, the commercials.
Here We Go Again Betty White 1995
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On the term portion, we were able to lower interest expense and we expect to save about $8 million in interest expense over the life of the facility.
unknown title 2011
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The rider allows the term portion to be gradually replaced over time to paid-up whole life protection.
MetLife Launches New Whole Life Insurance Product - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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The word portion has several shades of meaning piece, part, segment, allotment; it can even mean one's inheritance, or lot in life.
The Seattle Times 2012
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The complaint is that Google is trimming the title portion of the article in the RSS feed.
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Here's the scoop: The G2 includes 4GB of internal memory, of which a portion is accessible for downloading applications from the Android Market and a portion is allocated for both the operating system and preloaded applications.
T-Mobile G2: A compelling though possibly unhinged Android phone 2010
yarb commented on the word portion
In the UK, slang noun for the sex act. Now considered childish or old-fashioned.
July 7, 2009