proportion
/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/ verb C2- To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
- To form symmetrically.
- To set or render in proportion.
He/she/it proportions · Past proportioned · Past participle proportioned · -ing form proportioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- proportion
- He/she/it
- proportions
- Past
- proportioned
- Past participle
- proportioned
- -ing form
- proportioning
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AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.
you that lie there, may you prosper just in the same proportion as you are what you pretend to be!”
The proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a million.
Most of the Avonlea people were on Premier’s side of politics; hence on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly proportion of the women had gone to town thirty miles away.
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