What's the difference between portable and potable?

Portable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
  • (a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
  • (2) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
  • (3) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
  • (4) An investigation was made of the accuracy of a portable hematocrit measurement device (Stat-Crit) on the infusate of an autologous blood transfusion system.
  • (5) Fifty-nine chronic peritoneal catheters made of polyethylene covered with silastic were used to treat 43 IDDM patients peritoneally for 3-34 mo (mean 14 mo) with portable peristaltic pumps and U40 acidic insulin.
  • (6) Complete data were gathered on 124 pregnancies using a portable real-time ultrasound machine.
  • (7) With the use of tritiated ara-C and this portable system, pharmacologic studies were performed in 8 patients.
  • (8) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
  • (9) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
  • (10) A portable stereocamera linked to a computer has been developed capable of taking photographs in the clinical situation.
  • (11) A portable device equipped with a transmitted infrared photoelectric plethysmograph (TIPP) and compression cuff was designed for indirect estimation of elastic properties of the arteries.
  • (12) The 133Xe wash-out technique, portable CdTe(Cl) detectors and a portable data storage unit were used.
  • (13) A new portable device (measuring 14 X 11 X 5 cm, weighing 600 g) has been developed for recording ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) and R-R intervals on the electrocardiogram at 10 sec intervals throughout a 24 hour period and a computer system for analysis of the 8,640 digital recordings of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR).
  • (14) To further these ambitions, there will be key announcements: a fresh approach to information and advice for families, new rights for carers, a minimum level of care, "portable" needs assessments so people may move without having to be reviewed, extra funding for supported housing and trials of free care at home for people with terminal illness.
  • (15) The Pain-Track system includes portable data loggers carried by the patients, a personal computer with a software package for storage and analysis of the data and a terminal unit to connect the loggers and computer.
  • (16) The stability of fentanyl citrate and bupivacaine hydrochloride in an admixture with 0.9% sodium chloride injection in portable pump reservoirs with or without overwraps was investigated.
  • (17) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
  • (18) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (19) 170 patients were treated with continuous infusion of epirubicin, mitoxantrone, carboplatin or 5-fluorouracil through an implanted venous access port with a portable infusion pump.
  • (20) These elevated levels were observed before the PaO2, the portable chest roentgenograms and the other test results changed following surgery.

Potable


Definition:

  • (a.) Fit to be drunk; drinkable.
  • (n.) A potable liquid; a beverage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Authors evaluate some parameters relative to the concentration of fluoride in the potable water and in that bottled available in the territory of the Ussl no.
  • (2) Relating to these results in the first step the development of a theoretical model concerning the different influencing factors (quality of water tubes and other devices, variation of temperature, quality of potable water and the effect of ionic exchangers, indirect contamination by patients and dental staff, nature of dental treatment, utilization frequency of the direct handpieces) appears to be necessary.
  • (3) The significant association of cases with exposure to the potable hot water supply, and the identification of case and potable water isolates of the same subtype, suggest that the potable hot water was responsible for transmission of disease in this outbreak.
  • (4) The study results indicate that pigmented bacteria could readily be detected by using plate counting media developed for heterotroph enumeration in potable waters with incubation periods of 7 days.
  • (5) Longterm gains in this area require attention to behavioral and community development issues, including reduction of the sex and parity related differentials in mortality, enhancement of the status of women, improved female literacy and employment opportunities, improved intrafamilial food distribution patterns, maternity benefits, provision of potable water, intersectoral development to strengthen health care delivery, increased community participation, expanded health services, and enhancement of the pace of development.
  • (6) Naturally contaminated water can be rendered potable by incubation with cordials at room temperature for 1 h. This may be a way to reduce the risk of water-borne diarrhoea, particularly where the cleanliness of drinking waters cannot be otherwise assured, for example when making up oral rehydration fluids and for travellers in high-risk areas.
  • (7) L. pneumophila serogroups 1 and 10 were also isolated from the hot potable water supply in the building to which 19 of the 21 patients had been admitted.
  • (8) Potable water solutions of the salts are diluted with buffer (pH-4) and quantified directly by SPF.
  • (9) There was a significant association between some risk factors such as: living with cats, ingestion of non potable water and ingestion of raw meat.
  • (10) To investigate the gastrointestinal effects of employing recycled water as an irrigation source for urban public parks, we studied subjects active in parks irrigated with potable water, nonpotable water of wastewater origin, and nonpotable water of runoff origin.
  • (11) In this study, various insecticidal and molluscicidal compounds were tested in the laboratory for their toxicity to the intermediate hosts, namely, various species of cyclops, which often live in sources of potable water, such as step-wells, cisterns and ponds.
  • (12) Recommendations for prevention are intensified surveillance throughout the year,urgent upgrading of potable water supply and concerted effort in public health education especially against the use of river water and the consumption of raw food.
  • (13) The reservoir for hospital-acquired Legionnaires disease has been shown to be the potable water distribution system.
  • (14) The lack of potable water and sanitation facilities contributes to the spread of disease and higher infant mortality.
  • (15) In the United States chlorination of potable water supplies has been the standard method of disinfection for about 75 years.
  • (16) A contaminant in groundwater represents a threat to a drinking water source but not necessarily a threat to health, if the contaminant's concentration is decreased before it becomes available as potable.
  • (17) In regions with low fluorine levels in potable water antenatal caries prevention with fluorine preparations should be carried out.
  • (18) By means of programmed temperature and direct injection, quantitative measurements of 22 components in potable spirits can be simultaneously finished in 50 min.
  • (19) The strongest evidence has been the similarity of strains recovered from patients and from potable water and the cessation of outbreaks following institution of measures to eradicate Legionella from potable water systems.
  • (20) Hyperchlorination, raising hot water temperatures to greater than 55 degrees C, and replacing rubber gaskets are useful methods for controlling outbreaks of legionellosis traced to potable water systems but are not yet justified as routine preventative methods in the absence of such an outbreak.