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Definition: PORTATIVE |
PORTATIVEAdjective1. Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity. 2. Portable. |
Etymology: Portative \Por"ta*tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression portatif.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Littleness | Adjective: little; small; (in quantity); minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short. |
Transference | Adjective: transferred; Verb: drifted, movable; portable, portative; mailable; contagious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PORTATIVE |
| Specialty definitions using "PORTATIVE": portative organ. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PORTATIVE": Portoise. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "PORTATIVE": portative organ. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
organ portative | 4 |
portative scierie | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PORTATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | portativ (portable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | portatif (portative organ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teherbÃrású. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortativepay guindaste pórtico. (various references) portativ (portable, stave, staves). (various references) портативный (handheld, portable, walnut-sized). (various references) noseći (supproting). (various references) portátil (handheld, portable). (various references) portativ (portable), flyttbar (movable, portable). (various references) неÑучий (bearing, catenary, supporting), портативний (carriageable, handy, portable). (various references) xách tay được, để xách, để mang, để đỡ mang theo được. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PORTATIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: optative, optatives, partitive, perative, proative, progative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PORTATIVE" (pronounced 'Por"ta*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vaporetti. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: optative, rotative. | |
-2 letters: overapt, overtip, partite, patriot, pottier, private. | |
-3 letters: attire, opiate, patter, pattie, pavior, pirate, potter, privet, protea, protei, ratite, rotate, teapot, tiptoe, trivet, viator, vittae. | |
-4 letters: aiver, aport, apter, atrip, avert, irate, oater, opera, orate, ottar, otter, ovate, overt, pareo, parve, parvo, pater, patio, paver, peart, petit, petti, petto, pieta, pivot, prate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-t-t-v" | |
+2 letters: antipoverty, protractive, vituperator. | |
+3 letters: privatdocent, privatdozent, vituperation, vituperators, vituperatory. | |
+4 letters: contraceptive, extrapolative, interpolative, postoperative, privatdocents, privatdozents, vituperations. | |
+5 letters: absorptivities, contraceptives, contrapositive, interoperative. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 52 54 41 54 49 56 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. - .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O R T A T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0052 0054 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504952543554435639 |
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