What (who) is Portion - definition
portion
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Portion (disambiguation); Portions
(portions)
1.
A portion of something is a part of it.
Damage was confined to a small portion of the castle...
I have spent a fairly considerable portion of my life here...
I had learnt a portion of the Koran...
= part
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2.
A portion is the amount of food that is given to one person at a meal.
Desserts can be substituted by a portion of fresh fruit...
The portions were generous.
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portion
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Portion (disambiguation); Portions
¦ noun
1. a part or share.
an amount of food suitable for or served to one person.
Law the part or share of an estate given or descending by law to an heir.
2. archaic a person's destiny or lot.
3. (also marriage portion) archaic a dowry.
¦ verb
1. divide into portions and share out.
2. archaic give a dowry to.
Derivatives
portionless adjective (archaic).
Origin
ME: from OFr. porcion, from L. portio(n-), from the phr. pro portione 'in proportion'.
Portion
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·noun A wife's fortune; a dowry.
II. Portion ·noun A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
III. Portion ·vt To endow with a portion or inheritance.
IV. Portion ·noun A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
V. Portion ·noun That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
VII. Portion ·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.
Pronunciation examples for Portion
1. smaller portion.
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2. an accelerating portion and a decelerating portion.
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3. a portion.
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4. Portion control.
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5. upper portion, mostly --
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Examples of use of Portion
1. God allows us to bequeath a portion of our property by will, but this portion must not exceed one–third.
2. The lowest, oldest portion had the signature of dry sand dunes; the middle portion had windblown sheets of sand.
3. The government recommends eating at least one portion of white fish, such as cod, and one portion of oily fish, such as mack–erel, a week.
4. The worker‘s portion of the premium will rise 10.' percent, compared with a 5.8 percent boost in the government‘s portion –– the disparity that rankles the union.
5. The District has set aside a portion of its sales tax revenue for its share, and Maryland‘s portion is included in the state‘s capital transportation budget.