Prone

Definition: Prone

Prone

Adjective

1. Having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone".

2. Lying face downward.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Prone \Prone\, adjective. [Latin expression pronus, akin to Greek expression Sanskrit pravana sloping, inclined, and also to Latin pro forward, for. See Pro-.]. (Websters 1913)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Prone

Affections

Adjective: affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias; Noun: tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with.

Horizontality

Recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying; Verb: prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant.

Crosswords: Prone

You tell me he's a depressed criminal, prone to anger, serially unfaithful. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ram�n De Espa�a)

Understand I'm accident prone (Wishing I Was There; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia)

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Books

• The Prone Gunman (City Lights Noir) (reference)

• Prone Position (reference)

• Designing an accessible and accountable administrative system : why do not people protest? : a case study of grievance redressal in a drought prone district (reference)

• Prone to Wander (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Prone Mortal Form (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wilbur in prone position in damaged machine on ground after unsuccessful trial of December 14, 1903; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Neither drug is addictive or prone to abuse. (references)

Some people are more prone to getting a UTI than others. (references)

Pregnant women seem no more prone to UTIs than other women. (references)

Business

As in many countries, teenage apparel in Argentina sells very well. Adolescents are prone to shop every two weeks, looking for that new outfit. (references)

Countries like Korea that restructure and deregulate before government purchased generators have been paid off are prone to incur unrecoverable, or rather "stranded," costs. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The equities market is thin (only some 230 listed firms), concentrated and, therefore, prone to volatility. (references)

China

The Chinese economy is often prone to over-investment and over-production, for reasons not related to supply and demand. (references)

Comoros

Comoros is ruled by Colonel Azali Assoumani, who took power in a coup in April 1999. The country has been prone to coups and political insurrection since independence in 1975. The island of Anjouan attempted to secede from the Comoros in 1997, but the secessionist crisis subsided in August 2000, following the signing of an accord that would reunite the islands. (references)

Human Rights

Switzerland

Police claimed that they were forced to subdue Chukwu by cuffing his hands behind his back while he was prone on the floor. (references)

Ethiopia

The Dedesa camp is in an area less prone to malaria. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

U.S. export brokers and Omani trading firms are prone to trade difficulties when deliveries are not made within demanding government tender delivery dates. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

In the cooler months, dressing for warmth dictates, especially in regions of Ukraine prone to heating shortages. (references)

Guyana

Telegraph service is available to the U.S. International mail is generally adequate and reasonably timely for letter mail, but is not recommended for shipping packages or valuables, as these items may be prone to theft. (references)

Ghana

Crowded market areas, beaches, parks and tourist attractions are areas that are prone to this type of activity. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

According to the ILO and the Punjab Welfare Department, children constitute about 15 percent of the work force in the surgical instrument industry in Sialkot; 3,200 of these children are estimated to be under age 14. According to a June 1999 report issued by Public Services International, the average age of children in the surgical instrument industry is 12. Children in the surgical instrument industry are prone to injuries from machinery and burns from hot metal, as well as respiratory illnesses from inhaling poisonous metal dust. (references)

Colombia

The industries most prone to worker accidents were mining, construction, and transportation. (references)

India

Chemical industries are the most prone to accidents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "prone": accident prone ♦ lie prone ♦ prone firing ♦ Prone Position ♦ prone silhouette target ♦ prone to. Additional references.

Ending with "prone": crime-prone, frost-prone, injury-prone, semi-prone, stress-prone, strike-prone.

Containing "prone": ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes.

Albanian

përmbys (bring about, capsize, dislocate, keel, overbear, overset, overthrow, overturn, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upset, upturn), i shtrirë (expansive, extensive, outspread, outstretched, prostrate, recumbent, spreading), i prirur për (subject to). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميال (apt), ‏منكب, ‏منبطح (lying down, procumbent, prostrate, recumbent), ‏متمدد (dilatable, expanded, expansive, prostrate), ‏مستلقي, ‏واهن القوى, ‏خائر (spiritless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стръмен (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, declivitous, high pitched, humpbacked, rapid, steep), склонен (affected, given, inclinable, inclined, intent, minded, ready, set, subject, willed, willing), наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloped, sloping, splay, supine), наведен (downcast, inclined, reclinate, splay), легнал по очи, проснат (procumbent, prostrate, stretched), предразположен (inclined, liable, set), полегат (declivous, downhill, inclined, oblique, rampant, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Chinese 

有倾向. (various references)

Czech

příkrý (abrupt, brusque, harsh, sheer, stark, steep, violent), naklonìný (apt, inclinable, inclined, partial, shelved, slanting), náchylný (inclinable). (various references)

Danish

maveliggende. (various references)

Dutch

voorwaartsgedraaid. (various references)

Farsi 

مهیا (Bound, Present), متمایل (Apt, Avid, Like, Swept, Tendentious), مستعد (Apt, Capable, Susceptible), دمر, درازکش . (various references)

Finnish

vatsalla maaten. (various references)

French

prostré (prostrate), prolongé (prolonged, prostrate, protracted), prédisposé, sujet (principal), enclin, en pronation, couché sur le ventre, étendu face contre terre, � plat ventre (prostrate). (various references)

German

anfällig (delicate, liable, predisposed, susceptible, temperamental, unimmunized). (various references)

Greek 

μπρούμυτα, πρηνής (face down). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוע�" ל-, � וט�" (apt, bent, given, inclined, subject). (various references)

Hungarian

meredek (acclivous, arduous, be steeped, bluff, bluffy, close call, hairy, headlong, high-pitched, precipitous, steep, sticky), elterült (prostrate), lejtő (brae, declension, declivity, descent, grade, lean, rise, runoff, slope, upgrade), hasonfekvő. (various references)

Indonesian

tiarap (face downward (to lie)), cenderung (disposed, inclimed, lean, sloping). (various references)

Italian

prono (procumbent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

病気勝ち� (be prone to diseases), 伏射 (shooting lying prone), 傾ぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane), 傾く (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to decline, to go down, to heel over, to incline toward, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to trend toward, to wane), 心配性 (prone to worrying). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ぱいしょう (prone to worrying), びょうきがち� (be prone to diseases), ふくしゃ (copy, duplicate, radiation, shooting lying prone), かたぶく (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to decline, to go down, to heel over, to incline toward, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to trend toward, to wane), かたむく (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to decline, to go down, to heel over, to incline toward, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to trend toward, to wane), かたぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane), かしぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane). (various references)

Korean 

수그린. (various references)

Manx

ny lhie er e volg, bass fo. (various references)

Pig Latin

onepray

Portuguese

pronação (pronation), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, bent, biased, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, incumbent, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), de bruços (face down). (various references)

Romanian

lat (broad, flat, flatly, Square, wide), cu faţa în jos, aplecat (atilt, bent, inclined, lop-sided), întins (broad, even, expanse, expansion, expansive, extensive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, mighty, open, outspread, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, supine, taut, tense, vast), înclinat (aslope, atilt, declivous, inclinable, inclined, lop-sided, minded, oblique, overhung, rising, slanting, sloping, splay, squint). (various references)

Russian 

распростертый (outspread, outstretched, prostrate), наклонный (downhill, inclined, oblique, reclinate, sideling, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloped, sloping). (various references)

Scottish

spreigeil (authoritative, prone to blame, undaunted), aslonnach (prone to tell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sklon (bent, disposed, fond, inclinable, inclined, minded, open, partial, slanted), ničice, ležeći (idle, lying). (various references)

Spanish

prono, propenso (apt, liable, ready, susceptible). (various references)

Swedish

benägen (apt, disposed, inclinable, inclined, kind, liable, willing). (various references)

Turkish

yokuşaşağı, yatkın (bent, inclined), yüzükoyun (face down), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), eğimli (apt, curved, declivitous, inclined, slant, sloping, tilting), başaşağı (inverted, topsyturvy). (various references)

Turkmen 

яьzin, arkan. (various references)

Ukrainian

схильний (addicted, apt, disposed, given, inclinable, inclined, liable, minded, predisposed, rife, subject, tendent), розпластаний (flat, outstretched, spread eagle), прямовисний (direct, mural, perpendicular, precipitous, sheer, upright, vertical), похилий (askew, aslope, canting, declining, downhill, inclined, oblique, sidelong, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiên về (proneness), sấp; nằm sóng so� i ngả về, có thiên hướng về nghiêng, úp. (various references)

accumbas, accumbe, accumbebant, accumbent, accumbere, accumberet, prona, proni, prono, pronus, pronusque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prone": pronely, proneness, pronenesses, pronephra, pronephric, pronephroi, pronephros. (additional references)

Words containing "prone": aproned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arone, Oronel, parone, perone, Peronne, Perrone, Perronet, Perroni, phrone, pione, Pironio, ponev, porna, porne, porner, Portney, Porzner, prana, prane, prannet, prene, Prenge, preomnor, prine, prione, proce, proe, profe, progna, proie, proje, prome, Pron, prona, pronav, pronce, prond, proned, pronet, pronge, proni, Pronk, prono, pronte, proon, proons, prote, Protner, proun, prowe, proze, prun, pruney, Prunner, pruny, prunz, pryne, Przno, pyrene, pyron, rone, ronne, wrone. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nope, open, peon, pone, pore, porn, repo, rope.

-2 letters: eon, ern, nor, one, ope, ore, pen, per, pro, rep, roe.

-3 letters: en, er, ne, no, oe, on, op, or, pe, re.

+1 letter: crepon, opener, operon, orpine, pereon, perron, person, ponder, proven, pyrone, reopen.

+2 letters: aproned, crepons, entropy, hyperon, manrope, nephron, openers, operand, operant, operons, orpines, padrone, pandore, pereion, perigon, perrons, persona, persons, phonier, pioneer, pirogen, pleuron, pointer, ponders, porcine, pornier, portend, portent, postern, pouncer, pounder, prenoon, presong, profane, progeny, proline, promine, pronate, pronely, pronged, propane, propend, propene, propine, propmen, propone, protean, protein, protend, pyrogen, pyrones, reopens, respond, ripieno, snooper, sponger, tropine, unroped, upborne.