Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being transported.
  • Involving transportation; subjecting to transportation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being transported.
  • adjective Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being transported; easily moved.
  • adjective dated Incurring the punishment of transportation or exile to another place.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

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Examples

  • Dutton said SpringSource's application framework "removed the need to build applications against operating systems", which made applications "transportable" - i.e. ready for web deployment.

    CRN Australia - News - 2010

  • Dutton said SpringSource's application framework "removed the need to build applications against operating systems", which made applications "transportable" - i.e. ready for web deployment.

    iTnews Australia 2010

  • An older type of phone, more technically referred to as a transportable, that provides the advantages of an A / C adaptor for unlimited power, an external antenna for better coverage and greater output that creates a stronger signal than a portable phone can offer.

    Wireless Week Headline News 2009

  • An older type of phone, more technically referred to as a transportable, that provides the advantages of an A / C adaptor for unlimited power, an external antenna for better coverage and greater output that creates a stronger signal than a portable phone can offer.

    Wireless Week Headline News 2009

  • An older type of phone, more technically referred to as a transportable, that provides the advantages of an A / C adaptor for unlimited power, an external antenna for better coverage and greater output that creates a stronger signal than a portable phone can offer.

    Wireless Week Headline News 2009

  • An older type of phone, more technically referred to as a transportable, that provides the advantages of an A / C adaptor for unlimited power, an external antenna for better coverage and greater output that creates a stronger signal than a portable phone can offer.

    Wireless Week Headline News 2009

  • [Footnote 19: The wheel should be so low that the man could use his rifle without dismounting, and, if possible, it should be 'transportable' (? 'folding').]

    Cavalry in Future Wars Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889

  • Well, it all depends on what kind of transportable home you select; what sort of materials, what sort of energy you use and the policies of the company you get from. the point we may focus on in this piece is that these homes are potentially one of the'greenest 'kinds of home you can buy.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • Well, it all depends on what kind of transportable home you select; what sort of materials, what sort of energy you use and the policies of the company you get from. the point we may focus on in this piece is that these homes are potentially one of the'greenest 'kinds of home you can buy.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • A myriad of other suggestions - such as making social rights "transportable" between member states, mutual recognition of professional qualifications, improving tertiary education, farm policy reform, boosting research investment, better managing of migration, dealing with the demographics of ageing - are hoary old EU problems that usually lead to bickering and procrastination by member states, however.

    EUobserver.com - Headline News 2010

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