Difference between Serving and Portion

What is the difference between Serving and Portion?

Serving as a verb is (personal) to provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). while Portion as a verb is to divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.

Serving

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action of the verb to serve. A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That or who serves or serve.

Example sentence: Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Portion

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An allocated amount.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.

Example sentence: There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can only be done by hard work and sacrifice.

We hope you now know whether to use Serving or Portion in your sentence.

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