单词 | disproportion |
释义 | disproportionn. a. Want of proportion in number, quantity, size, etc.; lack of symmetry or due relation of quantity or number between things or parts of the same thing; the condition of being out of proportion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > quality of being disproportionate distemperance1340 unproportionatenessa1398 improportionc1450 inequalitya1538 disproportion1555 distemperment1582 misproportionateness1587 misproportion1596 unproportionableness1610 distemper1612 unproportiona1626 disproportionality1642 disproportionatedness1647 incommensuration1650 disproportionableness1651 overproportion1666 disproportionateness1668 incommensurateness1727 unproportionality1818 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 190 The disproportion that they haue to all other beastes. 1635 Bp. J. Hall Char. of Man 52 The disproportion betwixt us and them [sc. gnats] is but finite. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxii. 214 Let there be no great disproportion in age. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 196. ⁋3 The disproportion will always be great between expectation and enjoyment. 1878 J. T. Trowbridge Guy Vernon in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 208 Evil perhaps being nothing more nor less Than good in disproportion or excess. 1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. xxxiii. 325 A sense of disproportion lifts men into mirth. b. with a and plural: An example of this; something out of proportion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > quality of being disproportionate > instance of disproportion1609 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) i. xxxviii. 11 Disproportions harmonie do breake. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 238 Foule disproportion: thoughts vnnaturall. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 27 Reasoning I oft admire, How Nature wise and frugal could commit Such disproportions . View more context for this quotation 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 672 A leg too long, or some other disproportion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2018). disproportionv. transitive. To render or make out of due proportion. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > put out of shape [verb (transitive)] > make asymmetrical or out of proportion disproportiona1616 outgauge1891 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > not to suit [verb (transitive)] > make unsuitable > make disproportionate disproportiona1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. ii. 160 Shee did corrupt frayle Nature with some Bribe..To shape my Legges of an vnequall size, To dis-proportion me in euery part. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 7 Nothing disproportions us nor makes us so uncapable of being reunited..as murmuring. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. xi. viii. 323 Statutes that disproportion punishment to crime. 1864 W. Fairbairn in Reader 27 Feb. 270/1 It is even possible so to disproportion the top and bottom areas of a wrought-iron girder..as to cause it to yield with little more than half the ultimate strain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1555v.a1616 |
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