the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"
a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather; "he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio"
a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution; "they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio"
a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers; "the artist had put together a portfolio of his work"; "every actor has a portfolio of photographs"
one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
(logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
a reference point to shoot at; "his arrow hit the mark"
the location of the target that is to be hit
intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); "he put a quarter in the slot"
a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots"
(computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for additional memory"
a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar"
the trail of an animal (especially a deer); "he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees"
a position in a hierarchy or organization; "Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks"; "she beat some tough competition for the number one slot"