Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Relation of size, height, etc.; adjustment of proportions.
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- verb Present participle of
proportion .
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Examples
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His proportioning is second to none in that respect as well.
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The safety and preservation of the saints are owing, not only to the divine grace in proportioning the strength to the trial, but to the divine providence in proportioning the trial to the strength.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Juxtaposition and arrangement are the geometrical operations which typify the work of knowledge in such a case; or else we must fall back on metaphors from some mental chemistry, such as proportioning and combination.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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Passed hors d'oeuvres might seem simple -- but this format of conceptualizing, proportioning, and serving food is not what our hopefuls are accustomed to -- and the clientele might not have been either.
MasterChef Joe's Beef With Bad Leadership and D'oh! Dough-Making 2011
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To date, Congress has refrained from enacting any direct tax because of the absurdity of proportioning the tax according to the census.
A Federal Wealth Tax Requires Constitution To Be Amended First 2011
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Take a look at the dinner plates of families at home across America, or at meals served in restaurants, and you will usually find a common proportioning of meat, starch, and vegetables.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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Take a look at the dinner plates of families at home across America, or at meals served in restaurants, and you will usually find a common proportioning of meat, starch, and vegetables.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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It's always the top-heavy girls, for whom standard bike-fit proportioning fails to address, though.
Minding the Gap: Performance Equipment BikeSnobNYC 2010
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For Bosanquet, then, education should be primarily directed at improving character; it is the remedy for “awakening interests and proportioning them to values”
My Recycled Soul 2009
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The highest good thus includes a harmonious proper proportioning of happiness to virtue for all moral agents.
Kant's Philosophy of Religion Rossi, Philip 2009
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