Proportion is about balance and how things fit together harmoniously. For example "That hound dog's tiny legs look out of proportion to that big fat body."
The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio;
Noun
harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
Noun
magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions"
Noun
the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
Noun
balance among the parts of something
Verb
adjust in size relative to other things
Verb
give pleasant proportions to; "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"
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.
n.
Harmonic relation between parts, or between different
things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment;
symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.
n.
The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by
a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.
n.
A part considered comparatively; a share.
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.
n.
The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three
given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.
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.
v.
To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of
the body.
v.
To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
Proportion
The image of Christ, made after his own proportion.
Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.2.
Let the women . . . do the same things in their proportions and capacities.4.
Proportion
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value . . . but to the value our fancies set upon it.2.
Nature had proportioned her without any fault.3.
The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio;
To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another;
Usage Examples
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
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Other Usage ExamplesActions 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.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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