proportion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion. By surface analysis, pro- + portion.
Inflected forms:
form: proportions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proportions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: proportioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: proportioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: proportioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!”
gloss: Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Proper or equal share.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Let the women[…]do the same things in their proportions and capacities.
gloss: The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body
The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.
Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
gloss: A statement of equality between two ratios.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
examples: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
gloss: To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
gloss: To form symmetrically.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To set or render in proportion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To correspond to.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Derived words: blow out of proportion
blow out of proportions
compound proportion
disproportion
disproportionate
divine proportion
equiproportion
golden proportion
harmonic proportion
in proportion
inverse proportion
misproportion
of Koranic proportions
out of all proportion
out of proportion
overproportion
proportionable
proportional
proportionally
proportionate
proportioner
proportionize
proportionless
proportionment
reciprocal proportion
reproportion
superproportion
underproportion
unproportion
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