Adjective : a portable stage. ,a portable typewriter. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : Of their three television sets, one is a portable. From Dictionary.com.
It is the poor who live close to waste dumps, who live in areas close to mine dumps, are forced to drink unportable water from lack of choice, experience poor waste management, live with air pollution in their homes from smoky imbhawulas and who have raw sewerage running down streets. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Some, like myself, will never go back to vinyl - it's a niche and unportable. From Wordnik.com. [Prefix] Reference
And yet they are so often fragile, brittle and unportable things, hard to understand and harder to maintain. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
Thoroughly unportable, elementary and secondary public school students are forced to attend where they live -- unable to go across town, let alone across country. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
Note also that the whole range idea is rather unportable between character sets -- and even within character sets they may cause results you probably didn't expect. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Both are fine products but suffer from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Apparently, the port was conceived as a cheap-to-develop game (surprise!), but ended up "so disastrous and unportable that Tecmo had to go back to the drawing board with it.". From Wordnik.com. [Joystiq [Nintendo]] Reference
People like vinyl not just because of its sonic quirks, but because of its tactile and totally unportable nature; it really forces the listener to relax at home with the music, while MP3 does the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [CD Freaks News] Reference
Great value for inexpensive, unportable (i.e., phones don't work outside the U.S.) voice calling, but useless for data or international roaming, as far as I can tell. faceless128 January 16, 2010 3: 53 PM PST. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
This means Writers Guild of America members are currently not being paid for anything that ends up on the Internet … even while ads are sold around those episodes an advertisement in the middle of a “promo” - how strange, even while studios are building business models around the recognition that more and more people are watching television on the internet, even while everyone recognizes that it will be the portable internet and not the heavy and unportable television that delivers our entertainment in the decades to come. From Wordnik.com. [Battlestar Galactica » 2007 » November] Reference
"But I wonder you find anything to admire in such unportable objects as mountains and water. From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
"wxWidgets does not use templates (except for some advanced features that are switched off by default) since it is a notoriously unportable feature.". From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot: Developers] Reference
In areas where farming rather than herding dominates, cooperation among neighbors is more important, stronger government infrastructures are more common, and resources ” like decidedly unportable farmland ” are harder to steal. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging] Reference
“The art of cookery, &c., is indeed diversified according to the diversity of nations or countries; and to treat of it in that latitude would fill an unportable volume; and rather confound than improve those that would accomplish themselves with it. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Notoriously unportable, seriously?. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot: Developers] Reference
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