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Portamento
- - In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.
Portcrayon
- - A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.
Portcullis
- noun - gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage
Portending
- verb - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Portension
- - The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
Portentive
- - Presaging; foreshadowing.
Portentous
- adjective - boding
- of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- Ominous fateful
- ominously prophetic
- puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Porterages
- noun - the charge for carrying burdens by porters
- the transportation of burdens by porters
Portfolios
- noun - a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather; "he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio"
- a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution; "they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio"
- a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers; "the artist had put together a portfolio of his work"; "every actor has a portfolio of photographs"
- the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"
Portioning
- verb - give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"