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US
/ˈpɹɑpɝ/
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[ UK /pɹˈɒpɐ/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒpɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
she is not suitable for the position
everything in its proper place
the right man for the job -
having all the qualities typical of the thing specified
he finally has a proper job
wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack -
limited to the thing specified
the city proper
his claim is connected with the deed proper -
marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
proper manners
proper medical treatment
How To Use proper In A Sentence
- 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
- Some spring from immediately below the earth, and may more properly be termed suckers; the others grow on the visible part of the stem or caudex, often close to the oldest leaves; these should be cut off with a sharp knife, in early summer, and if they have a little of the parent bark attached to them all the better. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property. Times, Sunday Times
- Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
- I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
- The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
- I wouldn't have felt properly married if it hadn't been a church wedding.
- Disclosure of information would compromise the proper conduct of the investigation.