portion vs shank

shank vs portion

portion and shank both are nouns.

portion and shank both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
portion	Yes	No	Yes	No
shank	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, shank is a hyponym of portion; that is, shank is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than portion:

portion: something less than the whole of a human artifact
shank: the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

Other hyponyms of portion include appendage, bit, bottleneck, bulb, butt, stub, component, constituent, element, cutout, foible, fore edge, foredge, forte, fraction, heel, hub, jetsam, limb, neck, peen, piece, pressing, seat, section, segment, waist, backbone, spine, toe, turnout, widening, upstage, upstairs, wreckage.

portion (noun)	shank (noun)
the allotment of some amount by dividing something	a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
something less than the whole of a human artifact	lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal	the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group	cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage	cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
something determined in relation to something that includes it	cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)	the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
	a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg

portion (verb)	shank (verb)
give out	hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction

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