Vocabulary : Portability to Portamento

Portability : The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
Portable : Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine. ;; Possible to be endured; supportable.
Portableness : The quality or state of being portable; portability.
Portace : See Portass.
Portae : of Porta

Portage : A sailor's wages when in port. ;; The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage. ;; A porthole. ;; The act of carrying or transporting. ;; The price of carriage; porterage. ;; Capacity for carrying; tonnage. ;; A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry. ;; To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
Portage group : A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.
Portague : A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
Portal : A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. ;; The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. ;; Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. ;; By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church. ;; The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. ;; A prayer book or breviary; a portass. ;; Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
Portamento : In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.

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