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say it: PAWR-tuh-buhl
portable is an adjective and noun meaning "easily or conveniently transported". It is pronounced /ˈpɔɹtəbəl/ — PAWR-tuh-buhl. It carries 3 recorded senses.
easily or conveniently transported
“a portable television set”
of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull
“a portable outboard motor”
a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for portable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.