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Definition: PROPOSING |
PROPOSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Propose |
Date "PROPOSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feebleness | Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PROPOSING |
| English words defined with "PROPOSING": appropriation bill ♦ Broglie ♦ de Broglie, de-Stalinization ♦ Louis Victor de Broglie ♦ nominating address, nominating speech, nomination. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PROPOSING": Certificate of Need, Comité Consultatif International de Télégraphique et Téléphonique, Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique, COMMISSIONER OF CONCILIATION, Consultant Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph, Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone ♦ error of the third kind ♦ Kentish Fire ♦ OSTLER ♦ RELIABILITY ENGINEER, RFC 2408 ♦ type III error. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Can you think of one good reason why I, a strange man, should be interested in proposing to you, a mighty strange woman and at this hour of the day? (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) What do you think I'm proposing here, picnic baskets in a meadow? (Legalese; writing credit: Billy Ray) You're proposing to me 'cause we're gonna die! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Are you proposing to kill her? (Tot samyj Myunkhgauzen; writing credit: Grigori Gorin) What you're proposing is illegal, immoral and just plain rotten! (Captain Nice; writing credit: Norman Klenman) | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Santa Claus proposing a toast at a table full of people. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | You're proposing twenty hours on a boat- "A small boat," added Mark. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, Joanne Lynn found that some impaired individuals could not understand complex changes in the Medicare benefit she was proposing as part of a tradeoff of acute care for more LTC (Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illness newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1994, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). (references) | |
Business | It has expanded the number of its bilateral human rights dialogs and in some instances taken the initiative by proposing meetings. (references) | |
It does so by compiling and disseminating environmental knowledge and by proposing new targets, strategies and controls for policy programs. (references) | ||
Economic History | Korea | The head office of any major commercial bank has the ability to accept notification from companies proposing to engage in business in a liberalized sector. (references) |
Australia | There is some tension surrounding the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) with unions proposing GST related pay increases in future wage negotiations. (references) | |
Bulgaria | These companies are also in regular contact with the Parliamentary Committee on Television and Radio, which is charged with proposing new regulatory legislation. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bahamas | The Supreme Court established a task force to recommend further reforms in the court system and published a report in 1999 proposing modifications in the system to facilitate case flow management including the disposition of cases within 6 months of initial filing. (references) |
Minorities | Czech Republic | In June 2000, the Government approved a Plan for Roma Integration aimed at combating discrimination against the Romani community; the plan tasked the Human Rights Commissioner with proposing legislation during the year designed to give advantage to Romani firms in securing government contracts. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | The Government is proposing amendments to the PITA to increase penalties for traffickers and to decriminalize the actions of sex workers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To take advantage of modern vaccination achievements, I am proposing a mass immunization program, aimed at the virtual elimination of such ancient enemies of our children as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I am proposing a number of actions to energize our nuclear power program. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Supported by our allies, we've put forward draft agreements proposing significant weapon reductions to equal and verifiable lower levels. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "PROPOSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.17% of the time. "PROPOSING" is used about 757 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.17% | 728 | 9,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.17% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.4% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 757 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PROPOSING": pro-pro-proposing, re-proposing. | |
| 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 |
proposing | 23 |
proposing marriage | 21 |
proposing idea | 8 |
proposing to a man | 6 |
man proposing woman | 4 |
idea for proposing marriage | 4 |
proposing solution | 4 |
marriage proposing tip | 3 |
proposing to a woman | 3 |
amendment proposing | 3 |
tip on proposing | 2 |
proposing toast | 2 |
him proposing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROPOSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 提议 (Offer, Propose, Proposed, Proposition, Propound, Propounded, Propounding, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | parrainage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | vorschlagend (submitting, suggesting), empfehlend (commending, recommending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 出題 (proposing a question), 再提案 (proposing again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅつ い (proposing a question), さいていあ" (proposing again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 시. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oposingpray предлагать (hold forth, hold out, offer, propose, suggest, suggesting, suggests, tender, tout). (various references) criachadh (proposing to oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PROPOSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: porpoising, prazosin, preposing, proosian, proosians, Propazine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PROPOSING" (pronounced prupō"zing) |
| 6 | -u p ō" z i ng | opposing, supposing. |
| 5 | -p ō" z i ng | composing, decomposing, disposing, exposing, imposing, posing, predisposing, reimposing. |
| 4 | -ō" z i ng | closing, disclosing, dozing, enclosing, foreclosing, hosing, nosing, Rosing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, colorizing, commercializing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disguising, downsizing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, oozing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, praising, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-o-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: opposing, pogonips, spooring. | |
-2 letters: pogonip, pooping, prosing, roosing, sopping, sporing. | |
-3 letters: gipons, girons, grison, groins, isogon, orison, orpins, pingos, poison, pooris, poring, pornos, posing, prions, prison, prongs, roping, rosing, signor, soring, spinor, spring. | |
-4 letters: gipon, girns, giron, giros, goons, goops, gorps, grins, grips, groin, irons, noirs, noris, oping, opsin, ornis, orpin, pingo, pings, pions. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-o-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: reopposing. | |
+3 letters: outcroppings, propagations. | |
+4 letters: bootstrapping, phonographies, pornographies. | |
+5 letters: apostrophising, apostrophizing, phosphorescing, propositioning, sporangiophore. | |
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