a portion of a mature stem
a portion of something divided into shares.
A "block" is a portion of a plantation.
Surgical removal of a portion of the cranium.
Even Prime Creator is but a portion of something larger.
Desserts can be substituted by a portion of fresh fruit.
I'll have two spring rolls and a portion of congee.
Select a portion of the stream which is representative.
The female coupling includes a receiving portion sized to receive at least a portion of the male coupling, where the receiving portion has internal threads provided therein.
The step portion has an annular convex portion joined to an annular concave portion and displaces at least a portion of the center panel vertically in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis.
As a portion of a large economy, those budgets provided a basis for some progress.
profit-sharing(system of dividing a portion of a company's profits amongst its employees )
a portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource.
roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area.
We fought a very painful civil war and freed a portion of our population from slavery.
That's two spring rolls, a portion of congee, and a decaffeinated coffee.
Each investor owns shares, which represent a portion of the holdings of the fund.
Lexington will buy a portion of the bank's proprietary capital investments in the various funds and provide oversight for the co-investment portion of the unit.
The infolding of a portion of the outer layer of a blastula in the formation of a gastrula.
Continuing may result in only a portion of the form's data being merged.
An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space.
I would donate a portion of the book's sales, and go from there.
It intercepts a portion of the light impinging on the photocell.
A Bolt consists of a head and a cylindrical Body with screw threads along a portion of its length.
On the porter’s passport a portion of the portrait isn’t proportional.
I'd like a hamburger, a piece of Fried chicken, a portion of potato chips and an orangeade.
All right. A Hamburger, a piece of fried chicken, a portion of potato chips and an orangeade.
Here is a mere sampling, a portion of a spiritual action plan for my next 50 years.
To sign a portion of an XML document, you need a private key and a public certificate.
The board of directors may wish to transfer a portion of a large retained earnings balance to permanent capital.
Comb fingers forming a portion of a capacitive arrangement may be fabricated as part of the differential microphone diaphragm.
In a3791 Controller, a portion of a3790 program or of data stored in one sector of disk storage.
Influence of P and F content in phosphorus slag as a portion of raw meal of Portland cement
There is a world out there, a portion of which each man and woman is born to inherit.
As a portion of the goods arrived damaged, we have to put in a claim for the damages .
Marketers may, however, seize some opportunities to direct a campaign at only a portion of the target market.
CBLB502 is a polypeptide drug derived from a portion of Salmonella flagellin that binds to and potently activates TLR5.
Instead of throttling his old fellow traveler, Hunny turned to the girl, and poured out a portion of his discontent.
Surgeons removed his right fibula and grafted a portion of it to the right side of his jaw.
In these programs, a portion of the sales incentive is linked to the attainment of group sales goals.
"(They) have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.
"In another type of matte process, a portion of film is masked out during the shooting of a scene; then the film is removed and reshot with the already exposed portion masked out. "
With live liver transplants, only a portion of the liver of a donor is use, and this grows over time in the donee, while the remaining portion regenerates over time in the donor.
They launched Rent Marketer to the public in 2006, bankrolled by a portion of Daugherty's Google stock.
Intrusive viruses Invade an existing program and actually insert a portion of themselves into the host program.
Now I determined to step in myself and to allay her scruples with a portion of the truth.
The selling broker is then required to assign a portion of the commission to the buyer broker.
Cool the cake completely, brush away the crumbs, and frost it, reserving a portion of the icing for decorating.
All Set Menu Serve with a glass of Red Wine、Champagne, a cup of Coffee or Tea, a portion of Turkey、Christmas Cake、Fruit Platter.
Each plate consists of a section of the earth's crust and a portion of the mantle, the thick layer of hot rock below the crust.
A few years ago, a portion of these deposits was being diverted into property when the housing markets in a number of cities began to take off.
Government spending on building a bridge may have a bigger multiplier than a tax cut if consumers save a portion of their tax windfall.
Even with a tremendous research budget, you have only looked at a portion of the site and reached a specific part of the visitor population.
In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthenon, obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Genevieve hill.
It is faster to open a portion of a larger project when you perform repository operations, load a model, or work under source control.
An exemplary bearing for a turbocharger includes one or more thrust pads where each thrust pad includes a portion of a conical well;
The "middleman" bargains on behalf of you and your online dealers, who receive a portion of the difference as a reward.
On another expedition in 2006, the geologists found a portion of the skull of another extinct mammal, a brontothere known as Duchesneodus uintensis.
Cutoff refers to plate current cutting off on one side of a push-pull pair for a portion of the cycle, while the other side continues to function.
The only negative side to converting a portion of railing into a dumbbell is that countless drunk jocks will use it as a chin-up bar.
Each species has retained a portion of the knowledge necessary to return to a state of wholeness again and ascend home.
It is an opportunity to ask the hard questions, change your routine, break with the standards, and take ownership of a portion of each of your days.
It arises from intense stimulation of the reward circuitry of the brain — a portion of the ancient "mammalian brain," which lies under the newer neocortex (rational brain).
After Gilman died at the age of 70 in 1985, Gilman's widow gave Brando a portion of his remains in honour of the long friendship between the men.
We are carving out a portion of our patent rights and offering a covenant to open source developers and these particular patent rights.
"In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us,"
Since Chile introduced a fully funded, privately managed defined contribution scheme in 1981, some two dozens countries have converted a portion of their pension system to this arrangement.
Click to select this check box to redirect a virtual directory to the destination URL without appending a portion of the original URL.
If you have large investment in this asset class, a portion of the interest earned can be invested in out-of-the-money gold calls.
Getting beyond fear of discovery, is it right that we should have to shut off a portion of our lives and hide it from work?
Last year, five miners received jail terms of between one to three years for damaging a portion of the Ming Dynasty wall while using heavy machinery.
For this series of articles, when we refer to applications, we are really talking about just a portion of the overall application.
Only a portion of the Roman aqueducts utilized the familiar stone arch; most were underground conduits made of stone or terra-cotta pipe.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
France is slowly selling off a portion of its trove, he explains, but buyers don't want the beat-up American gold.
Mr. Helstone pushed up his spectacles from his nose to his forehead, handled his snuff-box, and administered to himself a portion of the contents.
With image sprites, you will have CSS selectors for each link that display only a portion of the image Sprite - effectively showing just the image you need.
You drive thirty or forty kilometers to and from work every day, and a portion of your salary is eaten by the gas station.
Annunciators are typically used in applications where the equipment monitored is not located in a portion of the facility that is normally attended.
By definition, a fifth wheel is a wheel or a portion of a wheel with two parts rotating on each other that sits on the front axle of a carriage and adds extra support so it doesn't tip.
to grow corn is only to put a portion of matter called a seed, into a situation where it can draw together particles of matter from the earth and air, to form the new combination called a plant.
Party A or Party B shall not be held responsible for any failure or delay in delivery of the entire lot or a portion of the goods under the contract as a result of any force majeure accident(s).
A titanic impact could have stripped away a portion of its rocky mantle, leaving behind a metallic core whose density is out of proportion with the original ratio of rock to metal.
Additionally, a valve system has a valve connector including a portion of a first passageway with the valve connector further including a suction port and an introduction port that are spaced apart.
This mode of levying taxes, therefore, limits unnecessarily the industry of the country: a portion of the fund destined by its owners for production being diverted from its purpose, and kept in a constant state of advance to the government.
A forester may be responsible for conducting a logging study for a portion of forest in California to determine the total dollar value of trees in areas suitable for logging.
When Tan died, an autopsy revealed that a portion of his left frontal lobe about the size of a golf ball had been liquefied by a massive stroke years before.
Take a portion of the same colonies as under 3.8.1 by means of a wire and stab inoculate a glucose agar tube. Incubate at 37 ?1 °C for 24 h.
tries to minimize the chances of this happening by reserving a certain number of free threads in the process and only using a portion of the total threads for request processing.
