All 4 Uses of
proportion
in
A Passage to India
- It's as if I got everything out of proportion.
Chpt 8 *out of proportion = not appropriate in size or degree
- Your emotions never seem in proportion to their objects, Aziz.
Chpt 27proportion = appropriate amount
- Here, upon a chair too small for him and with a head too large, sat King Kansa, who is Herod, directing the murder of some Innocents, and in a corner, similarly proportioned, stood the father and mother of the Lord, warned to depart in a dream.†
Chpt 33proportioned = made appropriate in size, amount, or degree
- They rise abruptly, insanely, without the proportion that is kept by the wildest hills elsewhere, they bear no relation to anything dreamt or seen.†
Chpt 12 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(proportion as in: the proportion of females) relative amount, quantity, or collectionThe exact meaning of this sense of proportion is subject to its context. For example:
- "The female proportion is 50%." -- percentage or share
- "The proportion of oil to vinegar." -- ratio (quantity of something relative to the quantity of something else)
- "In the survey, the female proportion said..." -- group
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(2)
(proportion as in: a problem of large proportion) size or dimension
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(3)
(proportion as in: respond in proportion) appropriate in size, amount, or degree