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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proper
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/proper breakfast (=big and healthy)
▪ I think kids need a good breakfast before they go to school.
a proper record
▪ Failure to maintain proper records would be a criminal offence.
a proper/real understanding
▪ They lacked any real understanding of the subject.
a sensible/proper diet
▪ Students don’t always eat a sensible diet.
adequate/proper precautions
▪ Companies have a legal responsibility to take adequate precautions against fire.
adequate/proper preparation
▪ You cannot go on a dangerous trip like this without adequate preparation.
adequate/proper supervision
▪ Why had the parents not provided adequate supervision?
due/proper consideration (=the necessary and suitable consideration)
▪ A lot of building took place without due consideration for the effect it would have on the area.
due/proper regard
▪ The aim is to get the job done as cheaply as possible, with due regard to high standards.
feel a right/proper charlie (=feel very stupid)
good/poor/proper hygiene
▪ The Consumers’ Association blames poor hygiene standards.
prim and proper
▪ a very prim and proper young lady
proper consultation
▪ Has there been proper consultation with the local communities?
proper fraction
proper noun
proper recognition
▪ Frank Norris has never received proper recognition as a great novelist.
proper/due respect (=suitable)
▪ ‘I want proper respect,’ said Mother.
proper/improper conduct (=correct/incorrect behaviour according to the normal rules or standards)
▪ There was no evidence of improper conduct on the part of the police.
the correct/proper procedure
▪ What's the correct procedure for applying for a grant?
the right/proper/correct balance
▪ With sport, you have to find the right balance between competition and fun.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
balance
▪ The other part of my proposal will probably prove annoying to radicals, thereby ensuring a proper balance.
▪ There was also an environmental objective - to maintain a proper balance between human needs and the natural environment.
▪ The Amendment, itself, strikes the proper balance between federal and state authority.
▪ You scratch your heads in selection, and can't find a proper balance with less than 12.
▪ The future for the advanced industrial countries lies increasingly in a proper balance between manufacturing and the service sector.
▪ In order to maintain a proper balance in your life, you must be prepared to allocate some time to yourself each day.
▪ Seemingly, two separate conditions must be satisfied to achieve proper balance.
care
▪ Voice over Mrs Hayward can now look forward to proper care for the rest of her life.
▪ By 1970, lawmakers were hearing disturbing reports that patients were not getting proper care in their communities.
▪ It is plain that the solicitors' claim was not prepared with proper care.
▪ With proper care, the chicken grows.
▪ Instead, wardrobes should be planned seriously and with proper care.
▪ Still, with proper care a man could be quite fairly at ease with them.
▪ The tenant must take proper care of the place.
▪ It provides technical instruction on the proper care of marijuana plants.
consideration
▪ A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration.
▪ Our amendments do not get proper consideration on Report or in Committee if there is a timetable motion.
▪ We are talking about a terminus in the heart of a great city and some proper consideration should be given to that.
▪ Tax law should not be introduced without proper consideration of the commercial fundamentals.
▪ Serious difficulties can arise when a contract is varied without proper consideration of the effect of the variation on the expert clause.
▪ We need proper consideration of the very constructive alternative proposals we have put forward.
▪ Governors should take any grievance relating to employment very seriously and give proper consideration to it through a fair grievance procedure.
▪ I have been stuck here and have not received it, but I shall, of course, give it proper consideration.
job
▪ Just because she's never had a proper job.
▪ Establish proper job descriptions for low-level supervisors at the plant, and link compensation to performance for frontline supervisors.
▪ It hasn't given people proper jobs.
▪ Other men's wives did proper jobs once the children were off their hands.
▪ It is often the proper job of authorities to issue directives for this purpose.
▪ It was all something to do with their thinking he didn't have a proper job, so they said.
▪ I don't have a proper job so I don't earn much money.
▪ Now he writes computer software for the National Blind League but needs a proper job.
meal
▪ Have at least one proper meal a day, hot if possible.
▪ I know it ain't much, but I du n no if it's enough to get a proper meal like.
▪ I don't see why we can't have a proper meal after a do.
name
▪ When we're among ourselves we call it by its proper name, which is poliomyelitis.
▪ It solves some of the puzzles mentioned for proper names.
▪ Many will never be known for many lived and died without a proper name.
▪ The front of the temporal lobe is thought to be involved with storing biographical information and proper names.
▪ First, proper name and noun are different description types, serving different functions.
▪ No, but patients occasionally complain afterward that they have more trouble with proper names than with memories in general.
▪ Whatever reading one gives to the three proper names, the inscription suggests that the collection was a gift.
▪ In Rome her proper name was Fauna or Damia, and her nocturnal orgiastic ceremonies were restricted to women.
noun
▪ There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
▪ Answer: a. Why: Use hyphens with a prefix and a proper noun.
▪ The facility to add more words to the lexicon should also be considered, especially for proper nouns and technical terms.
▪ Their problem is with proper nouns, not ordinary nouns.
▪ Another quarter of the omissions arose from previously unseen proper nouns.
▪ A text for students devoted seven pages to the use of a capital letter to indicate a proper noun.
person
▪ I never thought of you as a proper person before.
▪ Once the court is satisfied that the applicant is a fit and proper person, a protection order may be granted.
place
▪ Advantageous as that is in its proper place it would be disastrous if such numbers turned up as eigenvalues.
▪ She demanded strict ritual performances from them, a proper place to live, sacrificial objects and so on.
▪ Certainly, these are important highlights and should be given their proper place and emphasis in the narrative.
▪ It all comes back to putting technology in its proper place - wherever you are.
▪ Encouraging and enabling the laity to take their proper place in the Church?
▪ These were difficult and unsettled times, when people needed to be reminded about their proper place and duties.
▪ But a healthy faith should include them all, and it should have each of them in its proper place.
▪ This prevents any stitches becoming snagged and broken causing the filling to shift from its proper place.
procedure
▪ Process accountability - accountability for following proper procedures. 3.
▪ Law students tend to become more concerned with matters of proper procedure and exhibit an increased tendency to reason by analogy.
▪ They keep wanting to supply goods without going through the proper procedures.
▪ He ordered that a memorandum explaining the proper procedure be prepared and circulated to service commands.
▪ Crucially, therefore, causal explanation is the proper procedure when we engage in natural science but not elsewhere.
▪ It is not the proper procedure for anyone trying to make sense of other areas of social life.
▪ Decision: the court had made a recommendation for deportation without following the proper procedure and without inviting either counsel to assist.
role
▪ The proper role of age in clinical decision-making is controversial.
▪ As a consequence of this fact it is possible to delineate the proper role of the congregation in the eucharistic prayer.
▪ But this assumption rests on a contestable value judgment about the proper role of the judiciary in controlling the government.
▪ Presently they begin to believe that these are their proper roles and become upset when challenged.
▪ The limits of what had formerly been considered the proper role of the state had changed.
▪ While popular, such bills raise serious questions about the proper role of government, Kyl said.
▪ Innocent was in no doubt as to the proper roles of kings and emperors.
▪ What was the proper role of the director in a truly egalitarian company of women?
time
▪ The finite age of the universe is measured in proper time.
▪ But, between any moment of proper time and the c-boundary, an infinite amount of information-processing is possible.
▪ Putting this more precisely, the proper time taken by light to pass to and fro between two fixed points in spaces oscillates.
▪ One wonders how many of one's own mental defects result from lack of the appropriate experience at the proper time!
▪ We have always suggested that the proper time to rise is after 10 o'clock.
▪ It is an important aspect of proper time management.
training
▪ But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?
▪ There are, however, proper training agencies and reputable bodies.
▪ You must use the proper equipment, get the proper training to do jobs.
▪ They can be inculcated only as part of proper training.
▪ It is in these situations that proper training could make the difference between possible success and unfortunate failure.
▪ Given proper training, always a useful sideline for any dealer, these packages can achieve most requirements for office publishing.
▪ We shall ensure that all staff receive proper training and are required to uphold the principles of this Code.
▪ He emphasizes the need for proper training for people in both new types of job.
understanding
▪ He may find himself liable for taxes that proper understanding would have enabled him to avoid.
▪ A proper understanding of the role of intention in trusts must therefore come from other texts.
▪ It is the proper understanding of this relationship and the nature and application of energy that is crucial to scientific cleaning.
▪ A proper understanding of some one's way of life and their special needs may take time.
▪ A proper understanding of this aspect will allow you to create your own ideas much more easily and effectively.
▪ A proper understanding of the history of the surface of the Earth is not the least of them.
▪ It is unfortunate that the authors avoid mathematical formulae which are essential for a proper understanding of the experiments.
use
▪ To ensure the care, custody and proper use of standards and equipment allocated.
▪ They can make no proper use of either, of course, yet there they remain, always there.
▪ Fiscal accountability - accountability for the proper use of public money. 2.
▪ But the proper use of mifepristone requires three visits to a physician or clinic over a period of about 15 days.
▪ With proper use of a database this is easy, with benefits directly on the bottom line.
▪ After all, the key to the proper use of statistical analysis is the correct identification of levels of measurement.
▪ As McClellan constantly stresses, the interpretation of logistic information is crucial to its proper use.
▪ Most think anyone who wants to buy a gun should have to attend a clinic on proper use.
way
▪ We should be told that we must stop the Trident programme, because that is the proper way of doing things.
▪ What special interests out there thought threats, harassment and intimidation were the proper ways to pass a tough, controversial bill?
▪ The proper way to enter the Adour valley from the west is via the Col du Tourmalet, provided it is open.
▪ Chemehuevi high-school students researched the proper way to build a traditional house.
▪ But we'd have stopped him, the proper way.
▪ In Steve Jobs's mind, the proper way to move a cursor was with the mouse.
▪ We left the station in the proper way, along the railway.
▪ After a few weeks of that we were headed for New York in the proper way, by bus.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (proper) little madam
▪ She was madam, all right, a proper little madam.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bill is a very proper young man.
▪ Higher math skills are not given proper attention in schools.
▪ I can't make the repairs without the proper tools or materials.
▪ It's the main road which links Santa Cruz proper and the mountains.
▪ It just wouldn't have been proper to not invite Jeff.
▪ We don't have a proper guest room, but you can have the sofa in the study.
▪ We need to put the books back in their proper place.
▪ When are you going to get a proper job?
▪ With proper training, most people can learn leadership skills.
▪ You can't climb a mountain without the proper equipment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accounts by military and civilian air-traffic officials agreed the commercial airliner had received proper permission to traverse the zone.
▪ But, frankly, she wasn't a woman any more, not a proper woman.
▪ Hence, it is difficult to know when the proper consecutive item will appear.
▪ Not a menstrual period in the proper sense.
▪ Push him down the proper path.
▪ So, this firm might be able to come up with the proper lens.
▪ Ultimately this is a question as to the proper limits of self-determination, as well as turning on the specific lucidity of the individual patient.
▪ We will stop the wanton sale of school playing fields and ensure that sport takes its proper place within the curriculum.
II.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The machine operators had not been properly trained.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proper

Proper \Prop"er\, adv. Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.

Proper

Proper \Prop"er\, a. [OE. propre, F. propre, fr. L. proprius. Cf. Appropriate.]

  1. Belonging to one; one's own; individual. ``His proper good'' [i. e., his own possessions].
    --Chaucer. ``My proper son.''
    --Shak.

    Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast.
    --Dryden.

  2. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites.

    Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity.
    --Coleridge.

  3. Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.

    The proper study of mankind is man.
    --Pope.

    In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May.
    --Dryden.

  4. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. [Archaic] ``Thou art a proper man.''
    --Chaucer.

    Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child.
    --Heb. xi. 23.

  5. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.

  6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.

  7. (Her.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge.

    In proper, individually; privately. [Obs.]
    --Jer. Taylor.

    Proper flower or Proper corolla (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower.

    Proper fraction (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator.

    Proper nectary (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals and other parts of the flower. -- Proper noun (Gram.), a name belonging to an individual, by which it is distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to common noun; as, John, Boston, America.

    Proper perianth or Proper involucre (Bot.), that which incloses only a single flower.

    Proper receptacle (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proper

c.1300, "adapted to some purpose, fit, apt; commendable, excellent" (sometimes ironic), from Old French propre "own, particular; exact, neat, fitting, appropriate" (11c.), from Latin proprius "one's own, particular to itself," from pro privo "for the individual, in particular," from ablative of privus "one's own, individual" (see private (adj.)) + pro "for" (see pro-). Related: Properly.\n

\nFrom early 14c. as "belonging or pertaining to oneself; individual; intrinsic;" from mid-14c. as "pertaining to a person or thing in particular, special, specific; distinctive, characteristic;" also "what is by the rules, correct, appropriate, acceptable." From early 15c. as "separate, distinct; itself." Meaning "socially appropriate, decent, respectable" is first recorded 1704. Proper name "name belonging to or relating to the person or thing in question," is from late 13c., a sense also preserved in astronomical proper motion (c.1300). Proper noun is from c.1500.

Wiktionary
proper

a. 1 (lb en heading) ''Suitable.'' 2 #suit or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable. (from 13thc.) adv. 1 (context Scotland English) properly; thoroughly; completely 2 (context nonstandard slang English) properly

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WordNet
proper

  1. adj. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" [ant: improper]

  2. limited to the thing specified; "the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper" [syn: proper(ip)]

  3. appropriate for a condition or occasion; "everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position" [syn: right, suitable]

  4. having all the qualities typical of the thing specified; "wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack"; "he finally has a proper job" [syn: proper(a)]

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Wikipedia
Proper

Proper may refer to:

Proper (album)

Proper is a studio album by the Chicago based singer-songwriter Evan Thomas Weiss, known as Into It. Over It.

Proper (liturgy)

The proper ( Latin: proprium) is a part of the Christian liturgy that varies according to the date, either representing an observance within the liturgical year, or of a particular saint or significant event. The term is used in contrast to the ordinary, which is that part of the liturgy that is reasonably constant, or at least selected without regard to date, or to the common, which contains those parts of the liturgy that are common to an entire category of saints, such as apostles or martyrs.

Propers may include hymns and prayers in the canonical hours and in the Eucharist.

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Usage examples of "proper".

He was therefore accommodated with a second-hand suit and another shirt, and at once listed under the banners of Count Fathom, who spent the whole afternoon in giving him proper instructions for the regulation of his conduct.

We shall, then, proceed at once to discuss their proper accommodation, in the cheapest and most familiar method with which we are acquainted.

There were tiny bags of an almost impalpably fine grit which Jamshid said was fern seed, to be employed by those who knew the proper accompaniment of magical incantations, to make their corporeal persons invisible.

Swedish majesty, by the advice of the senate, thought proper to refuse complying with this request, alleging, that as the crown of Sweden was one of the principal guarantees of the treaty of Westphalia, it would be highly improper to take such a step in favour of a prince who had not only broke the laws and constitution of the empire, in refusing to furnish his contingent, but had even assisted, with his troops, a power known to be its declared enemy.

The prayers of the Goths were granted, and their service was accepted by the Imperial court: and orders were immediately despatched to the civil and military governors of the Thracian diocese, to make the necessary preparations for the passage and subsistence of a great people, till a proper and sufficient territory could be allotted for their future residence.

When the leaflets sink vertically down at night and the petioles rise, as often occurs, it is certain that the upward movement of the latter does not aid the leaflets in placing themselves in their proper position at night, for they have to move through a greater angular space than would otherwise have been necessary.

Colney had to be overcome afresh, and he fled, but managed, with two or three of his bitter phrases, to make a cuttle-fish fight of it, that oppressively shadowed his vanquisher: The Daniel Lambert of Cities: the Female Annuitant of Nations:--and such like, wretched stuff, proper to Colney Durance, easily dispersed and outlaughed when we have our vigour.

ARPA guaranteed a minimum residual radioactivity and the proper shape of the crater in which the antenna subsequently would be placed.

It is made up of unburnt anthracite and small lumps of slag proper together with some buttons of metallic tin.

He is said to dwell mainly upon the proper manner of performing the antiphonary and the graduale.

He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.

By connecting isolated things with mental groups already formed, and by assigning to the new its proper place among them, apperception not only increases the clearness and definiteness of ideas, but knits them more firmly to our consciousness.

The proper treatment for simple erythema consists in applying to the affected parts a little lime-water, or sweet-oil, or glycerine, with the use of warm baths and mild cathartics.

The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

Any property which the enemy can use, either by actual appropriation, or by the exercise of control over the owner, no matter what his nationality, is a proper subject of confiscation.