Difference between Portable and Outboard

What is the difference between Portable and Outboard?

Portable as an adjective is able to be carried or easily moved. while Outboard as an adjective is situated outside the hull of a vessel

Portable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Able to be carried or easily moved. Of software, able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A portable toilet; a self-contained outhouse. Any temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school. A hand-held video gaming device. a portable computer

Example sentence: There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Outboard

Part of speech: noun

Definition: an outboard motora vessel fitted with an outboard motora studio having outboard gear (compressor,equalizer,etc)

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: situated outside the hull of a vesselpositioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft

We hope you now know whether to use Portable or Outboard in your sentence.

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