Synonyms of the word portion


PORTIONADMINISTER - ALLOCATION - ALLOT - ALLOTMENT - APPORTIONING - APPORTIONMENT - ASSETS - ASSIGN - ASSIGNATION - CIRCUMSTANCES - COMPONENT - CONDITION - DEAL - DESTINY - DISPENSE - DISTRIBUTE - DOWER - DOWERY - DOWRY - FATE - FORTUNE - GIFT - HELPING - LOT - LUCK - OBJECT - PARCEL - PARCELING - PARCELLING - PART - PERCENTAGE - RELATION - SERVING - SHARE

portion

  • n. An allocated amount.
  • n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • n. One's fate; lot.
  • n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  • n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  • v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

administer

  • v. (transitive) To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion out.
  • v. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the…
  • v. (intransitive) To minister (to).
  • v. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  • v. To tender, as an oath.
  • v. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.

allocation

  • n. The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

allot

  • v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
  • v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

allotment

  • n. The act of allotting; assignment.
  • n. That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot,…
  • n. (law) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
  • n. (Britain) A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.

apportioning

  • v. present participle of apportion.
  • n. apportionment.

apportionment

  • n. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
  • n. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various…
  • n. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

assets

  • n. plural of asset.
  • n. (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the…
  • n. (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies…
  • n. Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations…

assign

  • v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
  • v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
  • v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
  • v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
  • n. An assignee.
  • n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

assignation

  • n. An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
  • n. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
  • n. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

circumstances

  • n. plural of circumstance.

component

  • n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part…
  • adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
  • adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

condition

  • n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
  • n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
  • n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
  • n. The health status of a medical patient.
  • n. The state or quality.
  • n. A particular state of being.
  • n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
  • v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
  • v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
  • v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
  • v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
  • v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
  • v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  • v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
  • v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

destiny

  • n. That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition foreordained by the…
  • n. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as…

dispense

  • v. To issue, distribute, or put out.
  • v. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
  • v. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
  • v. To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with.
  • v. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
  • n. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

distribute

  • v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
  • v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  • v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
  • v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
  • v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

dower

  • n. (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form…
  • n. (law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize…
  • n. (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
  • v. To give a dower or dowry.
  • v. To endow.

dowery

  • n. Alternative form of dowry.

dowry

  • n. Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time…
  • n. (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
  • n. (obsolete) Dower.
  • n. A natural gift or talent.
  • v. To bestow a dowry upon.

fate

  • n. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  • n. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  • n. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  • n. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of…
  • v. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

fortune

  • n. Destiny, especially favorable.
  • n. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
  • n. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
  • n. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
  • n. Good luck.
  • n. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
  • n. A large amount of money.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place.
  • v. To provide with a fortune.
  • v. To presage; to tell the fortune of.

gift

  • n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
  • n. A talent or natural ability.
  • n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
  • n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
  • v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
  • v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

helping

  • n. (countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps…
  • n. (figuratively, countable) An amount or quantity.
  • v. present participle of help.

lot

  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
  • n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  • n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
  • n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • n. Allotment; lottery.
  • n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
  • n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  • v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

luck

  • n. Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.
  • n. A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
  • n. success.
  • v. (intransitive) To succeed by chance.
  • v. (intransitive) To rely on luck.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out relying on luck.

object

  • n. A thing that has physical existence.
  • n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
  • n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
  • n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
  • n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
  • n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
  • v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

parcel

  • n. A package wrapped for shipment.
  • n. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  • n. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
  • n. (obsolete) A group of birds.
  • n. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  • n. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  • n. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
  • v. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  • v. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
  • v. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
  • v. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
  • adv. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

parceling

  • v. present participle of parcel.

parcelling

  • v. (Britain) present participle of parcel.
  • n. (nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage,…

part

  • n. A portion; a component.
  • n. Duty; responsibility.
  • n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
  • n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
  • n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
  • v. (intransitive) To leave.
  • v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
  • v. (transitive) To divide in two.
  • v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
  • v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  • v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  • v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
  • v. To leave; to quit.
  • v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
  • adj. Fractional; partial.
  • adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

percentage

  • n. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
  • n. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
  • n. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

relation

  • n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
  • n. A member of one's family.
  • n. The act of relating a story.
  • n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
  • n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
  • n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
  • n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
  • n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
  • n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

serving

  • adj. That or who serves or serve.
  • n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to serve.
  • n. (countable) A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone.
  • n. (countable) A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it.
  • v. present participle of serve.

share

  • n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
  • n. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit…
  • n. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
  • n. (Internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
  • n. The sharebone or pubis.
  • v. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  • v. To have or use in common.
  • v. To divide and distribute.
  • v. To tell to another.
  • v. (obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
  • n. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

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