portions
Slices of something
Portions are parts of a larger whole, especially shares divided among people: The waiter brought generous portions.
A portion of something is an amount set aside or allotted: A portion of the budget goes to maintenance.
To portion out is to divide into shares: She portioned the inheritance among her children.
Portion can also mean one's lot or fate, now somewhat literary: Suffering was his portion.
Part divided by whole
- percentageProportion out of hundred
- slicePortion cut off
- pieceA portion or segment
- partPiece of whole
cut · segment · chunk · section · wedge · division · lot · stake
Measured food portions
- servingsIndividual food portions
- plateFlat dish for food
- platterLarge flat serving dish
- dishFood container or recipe
course · appetizer · entree · dessert · side · buffet · seconds · thirds
Allocation across recipients
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- divvyingDistributing into portions
parceling · doling · disbursement · partitioning · earmarking · meting · assigning · quota
fraction
Part divided by whole
- percentageProportion out of hundred
- slicePortion cut off
- pieceA portion or segment
part · cut · segment · chunk · section · wedge · division · lot · stake · quota
helpings
Measured food portions
dish · course · appetizer · entree · dessert · side · buffet · seconds · thirds · heaping
distribution
Allocation across recipients
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
divvying · parceling · doling · disbursement · partitioning · earmarking · meting · assigning · quota · ration
moderation
Avoidance of excess
- restraintControl over impulses
- sizingDetermining or adjusting dimensions
- caloriesMeasures of food energy
diet · nutrition · measuring · scaling · restricting · limiting · reducing · counting · tracking · guidelines
- componentsparts, part, pieces, piece, elements
- meal prepmeal prep, batch cooking, meal plan, food prep, lunch prep
- bitsbits, morsels, tidbits, snippets, scraps
- dispensingpouring, serving, handing out, distributing, doling out
- sharesshares, share, profit sharing, divvy, market share
- rationingration stamps, coupon books, coupons, food rationing, gas rations
portionswholes
Complete unified amounts
entireties · totalities · entirety · aggregates · sums
portionsunity
Wholeness through cohesion
unities · wholeness · consolidations · consolidation · combinations
- portion sizeAmount of food served
- generous portionSizable amount given
- portion controlLimiting serving sizes
- portion outDivide and distribute
- heaping portion
- individual portion
portion, proportion, apportion, proportional, apportioned, portioning, proportioned, portioned, disproportionate