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UK
/pɹˈɒp/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɑp/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɑp/ ]
NOUN
- a propeller that rotates to push against air
- a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling
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any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie
before every scene he ran down his checklist of props
VERB
-
support by placing against something solid or rigid
shore and buttress an old building
How To Use prop In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
- Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that. Hooting Yard
- Her own valuers had estimated that the property was worth £150,000 on the basis of agricultural use of the surrounding land, and virtually nothing on the basis of mining and/or landfill operations.
- Shake them to bits and you are destroying more than property. Times, Sunday Times
- The tax assessor determined that the property was subject to taxation based on its infrequent use for religious purposes. Christianity Today
- This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
- The term "strategic" came up again earlier this year, when Ontario's provincial government set up a committee to debate a proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., operator of Canada's flagship Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids
- If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [TN: Looks like the Greek 'phi']. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
- INA recently won a grievance to place all nurses misplaced on the salary schedule in their appropriate slot.