portion
n. பங்கு, பாகம், கூறு, உண்டிச்சாலைகளின் வாடிக்கைக்காரர்களுக்குப் படைக்கப்படம் உணவின் அளவு, பெண் வழிச்சீர், சீதனம், விதி, ஊழ், (வினை.) பங்குகளாகப் பிரி, பங்கிட்டுக் கொடு, பங்கு ஒப்படை, பெண்ணுக்குச் சீர் வரிசைசெய், சீதனங்கொடு.
Synonyms
#noun portion, piece, fragment, fraction, division, member,constituent, element, ingredient, share, lot, concern, interest,participation, side, party, interest, faction, behalf, duty #verb
Antonyms
#noun whole, completeness, entirety, integrity, totality, mass_bulk,body, compound, transaction, affair #verb
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.