Portion and Total

Portion

Portion noun - One of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled.
Usage example: equal portions of the students' day are devoted to study, recreation, and sleep

Total is an antonym for portion in share topic.

Nearby Words: portioned, portioning, porting, portionless

Total

Total noun - A complete amount of something.

Portion is an antonym for total.

Nearby Words: totaled, tot, totality, totaling, totalled

How words are described

human human portion human total
good good portion good total
high high portion high total
long long portion long total
Other adjectives: short, certain, initial, considerable, small, actual, entire, massive, large, big, lower, new, final, remaining, last, largest.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Hitman Regenerating Health: Added in Absolution, although it only restores up to a portion of your total health.
  • Poland and the western portion of the Soviet Union (Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania) lost on average about 15% of their total populations.
  • Literature / Dolores Claiborne Total Eclipse of the Plot : The eclipse takes six and a half minutes, long enough for the climax of the flashback portion of Dolores's story.
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