portions
plural of portion
• positron, sorption
Source: Wiktionary
Por"tion, n. Etym: [F., from L. portio, akin to pars, partis, a part. See Part, n.]
1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him! Job xxvi. 14. Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Tennyson.
3. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate. The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. Luke xii. 46. Man's portion is to die and rise again. Keble.
4. 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. Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. Luke xv. 12.
5. A wife's fortune; a dowry. Shak.
Syn.
– Division; share; parcel; quantity; allotment; dividend.
– Portion, Part. Part is generic, having a simple reference to some whole. Portion has the additional idea of such a division as bears reference to an individual, or is allotted to some object; as, a portion of one's time; a portion of Scripture.
Por"tion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Portioning.]
1. To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute. And portion to his tribes the wide domain. Pope.
2. To endow with a portion or inheritance. Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 April 2025
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
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