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extent

English

Etymology

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (valuation of land, stretch of land), from estendre, extendre (extend) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ks?t?nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt
  • Hyphenation: ex?tent

Noun

extent (plural extents)

  1. A range of values or locations.
  2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
    The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
      But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
    • 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
      The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
  3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  4. The valuation of property.
  5. (law) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.

Derived terms

  • multiextent
  • to an extent
  • to some extent

Related terms

  • extend
  • extense

Translations

Adjective

extent

  1. (obsolete) Extended.

See also

  • scope
  • extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

extent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?

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portion

English

Etymology

From Middle English porcioun, borrowed from Old French porcion, from Latin portio (a share, part, portion, relation, proportion), akin to pars (part); see part. Compare proportion.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?p????n/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p????n/
  • (Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?po????n/, /?po????n/, /?po???n/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

portion (plural portions)

  1. An allocated amount.
  2. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  3. One's fate; lot.
    • Man's portion is to die and rise again.
  4. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  5. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
    • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, V. iv. 31:
      Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.

Usage notes

Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).

Synonyms

  • part
  • piece

Derived terms

  • portionless
  • proportion
  • underportion

Translations

Verb

portion (third-person singular simple present portions, present participle portioning, simple past and past participle portioned)

  1. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  2. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
    • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
      Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.

Translations

Usage notes

  • Particularly used as portion out.
  • Relatively formal, compared to the more informal divide, divide up, or the casual divvy, divvy up.

Synonyms

  • apportion
  • divide, divide up
  • divvy, divvy up

Derived terms

  • portion off
  • portion out

Further reading

  • portion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • portion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portionem (accusative singular of portio).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??.sj??/

Noun

portion f (plural portions)

  1. portion

Descendants

  • ? Turkish: porsiyon

Further reading

  • “portion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • potiron

Interlingua

Noun

portion (plural portiones)

  1. portion

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

portion c

  1. serving, an helping of food

Declension

Related terms

  • portionera

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