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Definition: Proportionate |
ProportionateAdjective1. Being in due proportion. 2. Agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree; "the figures are large but the corresponding totals next year will be larger". 3. Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "proportionate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: ProportionateSynonyms: corresponding (adj), harmonious (adj), in proportion to (adj), symmetrical (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disproportionate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Adjective: agreeing, suiting; Verb: in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with; Noun: at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours. |
Relation | Approximative, approximating; proportional, proportionate, proportionable; allusive, comparable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Proportionate |
| English words defined with "proportionate": Commensurately, Contemperation, Contemperature ♦ disproportionate ♦ Improportionate ♦ Metely ♦ Prolation, proportionable, proportionally, Proportionated, proportionately, Proportionating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "proportionate": disproportionate sub-class numbers ♦ genetic programming ♦ McLuckie gas detector, mint par, mint par of exchange ♦ Nonlinearities ♦ proportionate benefits ♦ uninsured standing charges clause. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "proportionate": Contemperature. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Marcus T. Cicero | Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no absolute or arbitrary power, to use a criminal, when he has got him in his hands, according to the passionate heats, or boundless extravagancy of his own will; but only to retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint: for these two are the only reasons, why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Poland | Elections to the Sejm are proportionate from multi-member districts ranging in size from seven to nineteen deputies. (references) |
Worker Rights | Peru | Although a conciliation and arbitration system exists, union officials complain that their proportionate share of the costs of arbitration often exceeds their resources. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Each member of the Board, transferred to the head of a separate bureau charged with specific duties, would feel in its highest degree that wholesome responsibility which can not be divided without a far more than proportionate diminution of its force. |
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| "Proportionate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.85% of the time. "Proportionate" is used about 142 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.85% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.04% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "proportionate": fitness proportionate reproduction ♦ proportionate benefits. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
height proportionate weight | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "proportionate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | proporcional (commensurate, proportional, rateable), përpjesëtoj (proportion), i përpjesshëm (proportional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متناسب (commensurate, proportional, symmetric, symmetrical), متسق (consistent, harmonious, regular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съразмерен (adequate, commensurate, in scale, symmetric, symmetrical), съгласувам (accord, cohere, harmonize, piece together, proportion, quadrate, reconcile, suit, work in), осъразмерявам (proportion), пропорционален (commensurable, commensurate, proportionable, proportional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 均衡 (Counterpoised, Counterpoising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | proportional stikproeve (proportionate sample), helbredsrelateret reproduktion (fitness proportionate reproduction), forholdsmæssige ydelser (proportionate benefits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uit/gewogen steekproef (proportionate sample), geschiktheidsevenredige reproductie (fitness proportionate reproduction), evenwichtige steekproef (proportionate sample), evenredige uitkering voor inkomensverlies (proportionate benefits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فراخور (Suitable, Worthy), متناسب کردن (Coordinate, Fit, Proportion), متناسب (Commensurate), درخور (Apposite, Appropriate, Apt, Becoming, Fit, Meet, Opportune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suhteellinen (comparative, proportional, relative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | proportionné. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anteilmäßig (proportional, proportionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάλογοσ (analgesic, analogous, commensurate, proportionable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | arányos (commensurable, commensurate, proportionable, proportional, shapely, well-proportioned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nisbi (relative), berbanding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | proporzionato (equable, shapely, steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 準ずる (to apply correspondingly, to be proportionate to, to conform to, to correspond to), 準 (aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, conform to, correspond to, level, quasi, rule, semi, standard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅ"ずる (to apply correspondingly, to be proportionate to, to conform to, to correspond to), じゅ" (10-day period, aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, chaste, conform to, correspond to, excellence, genius, innocent, level, order, pure, quasi, quasi-, rule, semi, semi-, standard, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비례하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coreiragh (accordant, proportional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oportionatepray proporcionado (adequate, commensurable, commensurate, compatible, congruent, well-proportioned). (various references) proporţionat (balanced, well-proportioned), egal (coequal, commensurate, coordinate, equal, equally, even, even tempered, evenly, fellow, identic, identical, level, match, peer, regular, smooth, Square, unchangeable, uniform). (various references) соразмерять, соразмерный (commensurate, rateable, well-proportioned). (various references) proporcionalan (commensurable, commensurate, proportional, well-proportioned), srazmeran (commensurable, commensurate, proportionable, proportional, rateable, shapely), načiniti srazmernim. (various references) proporcionado (proportionable, relatively), adecuar (proportion). (various references) proportionell (commensurate, proportional), väl avpassad. (various references) розмірювати (proportion), розмірний (dimensional, proportional), пропорційний (balanced, clean-limbed, commensurable, proportionable, proportional, proportioned, ratable, rateable, shapely). (various references) cân xứng (proportioned), cân đối theo tỷ lệ. (various references) cymesurol (commensurate), cymesur (proper), cyfatebol (corresponding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "proportionate": proportionated, proportionately, proportionates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "proportionate": disproportionate, overproportionate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "proportionate": disproportionated, disproportionately, disproportionates, overproportionately. (additional references) | |
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"Proportionate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: proportinate, proprotionate, proprtionate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "proportionate" (pronounced prupô"rshunut) |
| 11 | p r u p ô" r sh u n u t | disproportionate. |
| 7 | -ô" r sh u n u t | extortionate. |
| 5 | -sh u n u t | affectionate, compassionate, dispassionate, passionate. |
| 4 | -u n u t | baronet, bicarbonate, cabinet, coordinate, definite, diaconate, effeminate, fortunate, geminate, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, inordinate, laminate, obstinate, sultanate, unfortunate. |
| 3 | -n u t | alternate, Bennet, bluebonnet, bonnet, electromagnet, ferromagnet, garnet, granite, hornet, incarnate, magnate, magnet, minute, peanut, Pinot, planet, rennet, senate, Sennet, tenet, unit. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: reapportion. | |
-3 letters: intertroop, peroration, preportion, propionate, proportion. | |
-4 letters: apportion, operation, pretorian, proration, protonate, reappoint. | |
-5 letters: anterior, antipope, atropine, nitrator, operator, oratorio, patentor, patootie, portrait, potation, preprint, pretrain, priorate, pronator, ratooner, retirant, rotation, terrapin, triptane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: proportionated, proportionates. | |
+2 letters: proportionately. | |
+3 letters: disproportionate, photorespiration. | |
+4 letters: disproportionated, disproportionates, overproportionate, photorespirations, proportionalities. | |
+5 letters: disproportionately. | |
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