portable

«portable» in Mova's school dictionary: Light and small enough to be carried or moved easily: «a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (portable); noun (a portable, portables)

meaning for a pupil

1) Light and small enough to be carried or moved easily: «a portable speaker». tree →

2) (noun) A portable thing, like a portable TV or computer. tree →

3) (noun, Canada, US) A temporary classroom building in a school yard. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: portable chargers, speakers, toilets, heaters. In Canadian and some US schools, «portables» are extra classrooms. In science and design technology: making something portable means making it light and compact. Phrases: «portable charger», «portable speaker», «portable toilet».

examples

• Take the portable speaker to the beach. tree →
• My phone died, so I used a portable charger. tree →
• Our class has lessons in the portable behind the gym. tree →
• The campsite had portable toilets. tree →
• Laptops are portable computers. tree →
• This heater is portable, so you can move it from room to room. tree →

note

Spelling: «-able». Opposite: fixed, stationary. Noun: portability. From Latin «portare», to carry (like «porter», «transport»).

In the corpora

• A portable heater must be kept away from curtains and bedding and never covered, or it can start a fire.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «portable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.