Crossword-Solution: PROPORTION 10 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
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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.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
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.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Because there are few jobs, a large proportion of the work force has left to seek employment overseas.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with PROPORTION (3)

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
Roy T. Bennett The Light in the Heart
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
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.
John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1993–2015).