Proportionate

Word PROPORTIONATE
Character 13
Hyphenation pro por tion ate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Proportionate"

What do we mean by proportionate?

Being in due proportion; proportional. adjective

To make proportionate. transitive verb

Having proportion, or due proportion; adjusted to something else according to a certain rate or comparative relation; proportional.

To make proportional; adjust according to a settled rate or to due comparative relation or proportion: as, to proportionate punishments to crimes.

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. adjective

To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion. transitive verb

In proportion; proportional; commensurable. adjective

Harmonious and symmetrical. adjective

To make proportionate. verb

Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities adjective

Being in due proportion adjective

Agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree adjective

To make proportionate.

The act of using padding on the chest, thighs and bottom and cinching of the waist to create a feminine shape and proportions Urban Dictionary

The act of being proportionate Urban Dictionary

When all areas of the female body are on point. Literally. Literally pointing in all the right directions. Well proportioned. Urban Dictionary

Increasing the aesthetics of the human body. Getting tight. Making oneself look amazing. Urban Dictionary

A person who when you see them looks built strangely. This does not apply to people with any form of disability or a midget. Someone who is proportionally inaccurate looks as if when god was creating them he skipped a few steps or messed up when doing the math to find the right proportions. Urban Dictionary

A term used to describe two or more amounts, physical or metaphorical, that seem to take on a property of percentage. That is, when one amount rises, the other must drop in order to keep the maximum percentage at one hundred. (100%) This normally works against someone, especially the one who points out the counter-proportion. Urban Dictionary

Vocabulary.com Dictionary proportionate When things are in proportion, they are proportionate — their relative magnitudes are in balance and make sense the way they are. When the punishment fits the crime, it's proportionate. Urban Dictionary

When a wire or string is stretched and it’s extension is no longer proportional Urban Dictionary

To put into proportions. Coined by Frank Wang Urban Dictionary

When all areas of the female body are on point. Literally. Literally pointing in all the right directions. Well proportioned. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Proportionate

The word "proportionate" in example sentences

As to the point to Adam B. - I was using an "extreme" example to prove a point re. the legitimacy of using the term proportionate at all (which is standardly used by the police re. proportionate force etc.). ❋ Unknown (2008)

When I last covered Giuliani the night of the Iowa Caucus, in fact, he was here in Florida, as we all know, saying he was not at all worried about what he calls his proportionate strategy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The notion that a military response should be proportionate is silly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We don't make it onto the Hugo ballot in proportionate numbers, I suspect because the voter base for the Hugos has its favorites. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Except, this equation has one extra term proportionate to hbar. ❋ Sean (2008)

Moreover, it raises the farmer's income, enhances his standard of living, absorbs the rain, keeps his farm from migrating to the Gulf of Mexico, and in proportionate degree it aids in lessening the volume of flood waters each year. ❋ Unknown (1939)

Proportional net debt is defined as our proportionate share of our affiliates' net debt.

But was it "proportionate" -- using the buzzword of the moment? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every time that Israel allowed the terrorists to strike with relative impunity - every time the response was 'proportionate' - Hamas and Hezbollah gained support among Palestinians and respect in the world as a whole (because, no matter what they say, even overcivilized Europeans love a winner). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, it would appear that the real interests of political actors will find expression proportionate to their power, regardless of administrative arrangements Coy, 1946; Dimock, 1951. ❋ JAMES G. MARCH (1989)

So then the joining together of the first and third and second and fourth proportionals is the Just in the distribution, and this Just is the mean relatively to that which violates the proportionate, for the proportionate is a mean and the Just is proportionate. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)

I cannot here enter into the details of these instructions, which indeed would be unintelligible, but they showed me at first what I had not at all apprehended, namely the proportionate importance and unimportance of all the passions and emotions which regulate our relations with other souls. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Is that what the U.S. calls proportionate .... or a measured response? ❋ Unknown (2009)

• The Criminal Records Bureau and the ISA are to be merged to form a streamlined body to provide a "proportionate" barring and criminal records checking service. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He claims that the use of horses to charge protesters was, when "proportionate", a "very useful, effective tactic". ❋ Unknown (2011)

He also expresses concern about protests growing more violent in response to anger over government cuts, but in the same interview defends tactics such as using horses to charge protesters as "proportionate". ❋ Unknown (2011)

I was pleased to see that In2minds and Noa Zrk had noted the cant use of "proportionate" by Shami Chakrabati. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The drag queen had a [pancake booty] and [broad shoulders]. She did not know a thing about [proportionizing] ❋ Lady Lohita (2018)

The proportionation of [that girl] is amazing. [i.e]. she has a nice [figure] ❋ Tcal (2007)

Damn, [Katy's] tight. Her body be just [proportionating] [like it's] her job! ❋ I. Ferrari (2014)

I think she's [proportionating] bro. Her legs, her [boobies], and her booty look [swole]! ❋ I. Ferrari (2014)

[My math teacher] kinda [walks] funny. I think it may be due to her [proportionate] innacuracy. Shes proportionally inaccurate ❋ Mynameisrrlakeoswego (2009)

It seems like the amount of friends a guy has on MySpace or Facebook is [counter-proportionate] to how many friends he has in real life. God, it seems like the more this kid I'm [babysitting] likes a toy, the more noise it makes, the less I can enjoy myself while I'm watching him. Money be [damned], I'm not doing this anymore. ❋ Vardinator (2009)

Artists, designers, [architects], and plastic surgeons are all people who care deeply about whether things are proportionate. After all, if you give someone a nose job and their nose turns out too small, it won't look proportionate. And that's just in the visual sense. The old [adage] "No use [crying over spilled milk]" is just a way of saying that tears aren't proportionate to such a minor accident. Tears are proportionate when you crash your car, lose your fortune, or don't get into college. ❋ ... Zjdbckdnznsjd (2019)

[Harry] reached [the limit] of proportionality ❋ De Broglie (2017)

This [component] is a proportionizer for [data]. ❋ Blueicesky (2021)

Damn, [Katy's] tight. Her body be just [proportionating] [like it's] her job! ❋ I. Ferrari (2014)

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