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UK
/pɹəpˈɔːʃən/
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[ US /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/ ]
VERB
- adjust in size relative to other things
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give pleasant proportions to
harmonize a building with those surrounding it
NOUN
- balance among the parts of something
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the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
a dry martini has a large proportion of gin
an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations -
harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance -
magnitude or extent
a building of vast proportions - the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
How To Use proportion In A Sentence
- 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
- In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
- a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty. Gigolo
- It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The 32-year-old actress spent a large proportion of the week playing cat and mouse with the press.
- The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
- She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
- A neighbourhood patrol can thus assume the proportions of an armed convoy.