Crossword-Solution: PROPORTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proportion | n. | The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. |
| Proportion | n. | Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. |
| Proportion | n. | The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot. |
| Proportion | n. | A part considered comparatively; a share. |
| Proportion | n. | The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth. |
| Proportion | n. | The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional. |
| Proportion | v. | To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income. |
| Proportion | v. | To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body. |
| Proportion | v. | To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion. |
We have 44 clues for the answer “PROPORTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| harmonize a building with those surrounding it | 1 answer |
| adjust in size relative to other things | 1 answer |
| Part voting aye? | 1 answer |
| Out of __ (excessively) | 1 answer |
| Relativeness | 2 answers |
| the relation of one thing to another in magnitude | 3 answers |
| dosage | 6 answers |
| Quotient | 6 answers |
| DEGREE of value | 7 answers |
| Percentage | 12 answers |
| Ratio | 12 answers |
| correlation | 12 answers |
| eurhythmy | 15 answers |
| Dividend | 16 answers |
| plat | 17 answers |
| BEAUTY of movement | 22 answers |
| MAKE into | 23 answers |
| dose | 26 answers |
| Package | 26 answers |
| symmetry | 28 answers |
| integrate | 35 answers |
| Dole | 36 answers |
| Allot | 37 answers |
| Excerpt | 45 answers |
| Harmonise | 45 answers |
| fraction | 45 answers |
| move slightly | 49 answers |
| Packet | 52 answers |
| Pack | 52 answers |
| attune | 53 answers |
| Rate | 56 answers |
| Fragment | 57 answers |
| Chunk | 57 answers |
| Parcel | 58 answers |
| Portion | 58 answers |
| Hunk | 60 answers |
| Patch | 61 answers |
| Scale | 62 answers |
| Accustom | 63 answers |
| Segment | 68 answers |
| Quota | 68 answers |
| Extent | 71 answers |
| Piece | 74 answers |
| Plot | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROPORTION (5)
That ye should be as Gods, since I as Man, Internal Man, is but proportion meet, I of brute human, yee of human Gods.
One caution: the proportion of, say, defense expenditures as a percent of GNP/GDP in local currency accounts may differ substantially from the proportion when GNP/GDP accounts are expressed in PPP terms, as, for example, when an observer estimates the dollar level of Soviet or Japanese military expenditures; similar problems exist when components are expressed in dollars under currency exchange rate procedures.
Because there are few jobs, a large proportion of the work force has left to seek employment overseas.
Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature, the moderate proportion of intellect, and the very trifling admixture of moral and spiritual ingredients; these latter qualities, indeed, being in barely enough measure to keep the old gentleman from walking on all-fours.
Quotes with PROPORTION (3)
The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1993–2015).