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Portableness

The quality or state of being portable portability...


Portability

The quality or state of being portable fitness to be carried...


Portable

Capable of being borne or carried easily transported conveyed without difficulty as a portable bed desk engine...


Hand-held portable apparatus

Hand-held portable apparatus, means an apparatus which is so designed as to be capable of being held in the hands and moved while connected to a supply of electricity. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (vv)]...


Building

Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...


Bidarkee

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame...


Bier

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave...


boom box

a large portable casette or compact disk player usually having an integrated radio receiver It typically has two stereophonic speakers and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity from which the name comes...


bullhorn

a portable loudspeaker with built in microphone and amplifier...


Carpetbag

A portable bag for travelers so called because originally made of carpet...


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