Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“proportioned” is a form of

proportion

UK /pɹəˈpɔːʃən/ · US /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/ noun, verb

Forms proportions proportioning proportioned purportion

  1. noun (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
  2. noun (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
  3. noun (countable) Proper or equal share.
  4. noun The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree. “the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body”
  5. noun (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
  6. noun (mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
  7. noun (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
  8. verb (transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
  9. verb (transitive) To form symmetrically.
  10. verb (transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
  11. verb (transitive, archaic) To correspond to.

Synonyms

dimension symmetry ratio proportionality balance

Antonyms

disproportion

Etymology

From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion. By surface analysis, pro- + portion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. "Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith." Rom. xii. 6.
  3. verb 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.
  4. verb To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.

Etymology [F., fr. L. proportio; pro before + portio part or share. See Portion.]

Etymology [Cf. F. proportionner. Cf. Proportionate, v.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “proportion”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “proportion” (best matches first).

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