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Proportionately

Definition: Proportionately

Proportionately

Adverb

1. To a proportionate degree; "your salary will rise proportionately to your workload".

2. To a proportionate degree; "the height of this wall must be reduced proportionately to give the room pleasant dimensions".

3. In proportion.

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

Date "proportionately" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)


Synonyms: Proportionately

Synonyms: pro rata (adv), proportionally (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: disproportionately (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Proportionately

English words defined with "proportionately": duckpinsproportionally, Proratable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "proportionately": assay tonInsurance, General-AverageLoan Fee. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Proportionately

AuthorQuotation

Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty -- the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Proportionately

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

In periodically estimating Germany's capacity to pay, the Commission shall examine the German system of taxation, first, to the end that the sums for reparation which Germany is required to pay shall become a charge upon all her revenues prior to that for the service or discharge of any domestic loan, and secondly, so as to satisfy itself that, in general, the German scheme of taxation is fully as heavy proportionately as that of any of the Powers represented on the Commission. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Proportionately

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In the operating room, surgeons can lengthen muscles and tendons that are proportionately too short. (references)

And the incidence of stroke is increasing proportionately with the increase in the elderly population. (references)

There appear to be proportionately more children infected, more children with asymptomatic or mild infections, and children with hemorrhagic manifestations after infections. (references)

Business

Given the optimistic projection for the growth of the car population there is little doubt that demand for automotive parts and accessories will increase proportionately. (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

Arab children make up approximately one-quarter of the public school population, but historically government resources allocated for them were proportionately less than for Jewish children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Liechtenstein

The budget is allocated proportionately according to membership numbers. (references)

Economic History

Czech Republic

Public support for NATO membership remains around 50%-60%. The Czech Government committed itself in 1996 to increase defense spending by 0.1% of GDP annually until the year 2000, when military spending will reach or exceed 2% of GDP. This will put Czech defense spending on a level proportionately comparable with other NATO allies. (references)

Political Rights

Jordan

The Palestinian community, estimated at more than half of the total population, is not represented proportionately in the Government and legislature. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Proportionately

"Proportionately" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Proportionately" is used about 205 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%20521,272

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Proportionately

Expression using "proportionately": proportionately speaking. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Proportionately

Language Translations for "proportionately"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

均衡地. (various references)

   

Czech

  

úmìrnì. (various references)

   

Danish

  

prisen forhoejes proportionalt med den eventuelle forhoejelse af den faelles pris (the price shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

de prijs wordt verhoogd in evenredigheid met de eventuele verhoging van de gemeenschappelijke prijs (the price shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

suhteellisesti (in proportion). (various references)

   

French

  

le prix est augmenté proportionnellement l'augmentation éventuelle du prix commun (the price shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price). (various references)

   

German

  

proportional (proportional, proportionally, proportionate), entsprechend (according, according to, accordingly, adequate, analogical, appropriate, commensurately, complying, conforming, congruent, congruous, considering, consistently, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, corresponding to, correspondingly, equivalent, fitting, homologous, in accordance with, obverse, pertinent, proportionally, proportionate, relevant), angemessen (adequate, appropriate, apropos, becoming, befit, commensurate, commensurately, condign, congruous, congruously, fair, fitly, moderate, pertinent, proportionate, reasonable, satisfactory, seemly, suitable, suitably, toward, worthily). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

η τιμή αυξάνεται ανάλογα προς την ενδεχόμενη αύξηση της κοινής τιμής (the price shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

arányosan (in proportion, pro rata, to draw sg to scale). (various references)

   

Italian

  

il prezzo è maggiorato in proporzione all'eventuale aumento del prezzo comune (the price shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

비례하. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oportionatelypray

   

Portuguese

  

o preço será aumentado proporcionalmente ao aumento eventual do preço comum (the price shall be increased proportionately to any rise in the common price). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пропорционально (pro rata, prorata, ratably, rateably). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

proporcionalmente (proportionally). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förhållandevis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Proportionately

Derivations

Words ending with "proportionately": disproportionately, overproportionately. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Proportionately"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "proportionately" (pronounced prupô"rshunutlē)
13p r u p ô" r sh u n u t l ēdisproportionately.
7-sh u n u t l ēaffectionately, compassionately, dispassionately, passionately.
6-u n u t l ēdefinitely, fortunately, indefinitely, indiscriminately, infinitely, inordinately, unfortunately.
5-n u t l ēalternately, minutely.
4-u t l ēaccurately, adequately, appropriately, approximately, commensurately, deliberately, delicately, desperately, elaborately, explicitly, exquisitely, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, intimately, intricately, legitimately, moderately, privately, quietly, secretly, separately, tacitly, ultimately.
3-t l ēabruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, acutely, adamantly, adroitly, apparently, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brightly, brilliantly, coherently, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, deftly, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, independently, indignantly, indirectly, inefficiently, ineptly, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, leniently, lightly, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, politely, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, prominently, promptly, prudently, pungently, quaintly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, rightly, robustly, saintly, shortly, significantly, silently, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely.

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

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Anagrams: Proportionately

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-t-y"

-2 letters: proportionate.

-3 letters: interpolator, proportional.

-4 letters: poltroonery, protonotary, protoplanet, reapportion.

-5 letters: anteriorly, interparty, intertroop, peroration, pleiotropy, preportion, propionate, proportion, prototypal, toleration, torrential.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-t-y"
 

+3 letters: disproportionately.

 

+4 letters: overproportionately.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Historic
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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