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A prop is something you use as a support, like a broom that serves as a prop to hold a door open. A prop is also something that goes on stage, like a garbage can in a Beckett play.

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A shell, used as a die. See Props.

Noun
a propeller that rotates to push against air

Noun
a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling

Noun
any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props"

Verb
support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"

n.
A shell, used as a die. See Props.

v. t.
To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.

v.
That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

Prop

Prop , n. A shell, used as a die. See Props.

Prop

Prop , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Propping.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. Prop, Propagate.] To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. Shak.

Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.

For being not propp'd by ancestry.

I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.

Prop

Prop, n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. prop stopple, stopper, cork, Sw. propp, G. pfropf. See Prop, v.]That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building. "Two props of virtue." Shak. A shell, used as a die. See Props. To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

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