unit vs portion
portion vs unitunit and portion both are nouns.
unit is not a verb while portion is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unit | Yes | No | No | No |
| portion | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
portion is a hypernym of
unit; that is, portion is a
word with a broader meaning than unit:
- unit: an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
- portion: something determined in relation to something that includes it
| unit (noun) | portion (noun) |
|---|---|
| an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | the allotment of some amount by dividing something |
| a single undivided whole | something less than the whole of a human artifact |
| an organization regarded as part of a larger social group | an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal |
| a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group |
| any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange | money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage |
| an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole | something determined in relation to something that includes it |
| your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) |
| unit (verb) | portion (verb) |
|---|---|
| give out |
Words related to "unit"
- Brinell number
- ECTS credit
- ECTS-credit point
- EFLOPS
- GFLOPS
- Hart
- ICU
- L/100 km
- MFLOP
- MIPS
- PFLOPS
- Trojan horse
- YFLOPS
- ZFLOPS
- absorption unit
- acceleration unit
- administrative body
- administrative unit
- aggregate
- angular unit
- animate thing
- area unit
- artefact
- artifact
- assembly
- ban
- billion floating point operations per second
- bit
- building block
- capacity measure
- capacity unit
- carat
- chain
- chemical chain
- chemical group
- combination
- company
- component
- component part
- computer memory unit
- congener
- constituent
- couple
- credit point
- crew
- cubage unit
- cubature unit
- cubic content unit
- cubic measure
- deciban
- definite quantity
- den
- denier
- diopter
- dioptre
- displacement unit
- dit
- electromagnetic unit
- electrostatic unit
- emu
- energy unit
- exaflop
- explosive unit
- family
- fifth column
- force
- force unit
- gang
- general delivery
- gigaflop
- group
- hartley
- heat unit
- home
- house
- household
- instrumentality
- intensive care unit
- item
- karat
- klavern
- kt
- langley
- linear measure
- linear unit
- liters per hundred kilometers
- litres per hundred kilometres
- living thing
- machine-hour
- man-month
- mass unit
- measuring block
- measuring unit
- megaflop
- member
- menage
- metric
- metric unit
- miles per gallon
- military force
- military group
- military unit
- million floating point operations per second
- million instructions per second
- molecule
- monetary unit
- natural object
- object
- one
- organisation
- organization
- outfit
- pain unit
- part
- petaflop
- physical object
- piece
- point
- political entity
- political unit
- portion
- poste restante
- pressure unit
- printing unit
- radical
- scout group
- scout troop
- section
- segment
- side
- social unit
- sound unit
- squad
- square measure
- sum
- task force
- team
- telephone unit
- temperature unit
- teraflop
- thing
- tkm
- tonne-kilometer
- tonne-kilometre
- total
- totality
- trillion floating point operations per second
- troop
- unify
- unit cell
- unit of measurement
- unit of viscosity
- unitize
- volume unit
- weight
- weight unit
- whole
- work party
- work unit
- working group
- working party
- yottaflop
- zettaflop
Words related to "portion"
- administer
- allocate
- allocation
- allot
- allotment
- allow
- allowance
- appendage
- apportion
- apportioning
- apportionment
- appropriate
- assets
- assign
- assignation
- backbone
- bad luck
- balance
- base
- basis
- bit
- bottleneck
- breast
- bulb
- butt
- circumstances
- component
- component part
- condition
- constituent
- cut
- cutout
- deal
- deal out
- destiny
- detail
- dish out
- dispensation
- dispense
- distribute
- dole
- dole out
- dower
- dowery
- dowry
- drink
- drumstick
- earmark
- earnings
- element
- failure
- fate
- foible
- fore edge
- foredge
- forte
- fortune
- fraction
- gift
- good fortune
- good luck
- heel
- helping
- hub
- ill luck
- interest
- item
- jetsam
- language unit
- libation
- limb
- linguistic unit
- lot
- luck
- luckiness
- lucre
- meal
- medallion
- member
- meronymy
- mete out
- misfortune
- mouthful
- neck
- net
- net income
- net profit
- object
- oyster
- parcel
- parcel out
- parceling
- parcelling
- parson's nose
- part
- part to whole relation
- particular
- peen
- percentage
- physical object
- piece
- point
- pope's nose
- pressing
- profit
- profit sharing
- profits
- providence
- ration
- relation
- remainder
- repast
- reserve
- residual
- residue
- residuum
- rest
- round
- round of drinks
- seat
- second joint
- section
- segment
- serving
- set aside
- shank
- share
- shell out
- slice
- small indefinite amount
- small indefinite quantity
- spine
- split
- stake
- stub
- subpart
- substance
- taste
- thigh
- toe
- tough luck
- tranche
- turnout
- unit
- upstage
- upstairs
- waist
- way
- white meat
- whole
- widening
- wing
- wreckage
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