The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proportion \Pro*por"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proportioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Proportioning.] [Cf. F. proportionner. Cf. Proportionate, v.]
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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.
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.
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To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
Nature had proportioned her without any fault.
--Sir P. Sidney. To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
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vb. (present participle of proportion English)
Usage examples of "proportioning".
But one cannot conceive that even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work.
In the present day engineers are in accord as to the principles of estimating the magnitude of the stresses on the members of a structure, but not so in proportioning the members to resist those stresses.
They were, he guessed from their gawkiness and lack of adult proportionings, still somewhere in preadolescence, dark-haired and oliveskinned like their parents.
They alledg'd that the act was intended to load the proprietary estate in order to spare those of the people, and that if it were suffer'd to continue in force, and the proprietaries who were in odium with the people, left to their mercy in proportioning the taxes, they would inevitably be ruined.