Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In proportion; in due degree; with suitable comparative relation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively.
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- adverb In
proportion ; indue degree ;adapted relatively .
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- adverb to a proportionate degree
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The two are pulling in proportionally equal chunks of PAC money vs. individual contributions.
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I still see double hyphens used in proportionally spaced fonts.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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This resulted in proportionally higher levels of gene products (i.e. plasma angiotensinogen protein) and, importantly, proportionally higher blood pressure with increasing gene copy number.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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Pick-a-party SUMMARY: My sense is that McMorris will gain proportionally in the General, compared to the primary.
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More than 800 Israelis were killed, which, in American terms proportionally, would be more than 40,000 people.
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Not many losers are Republicans proportionally, which is why Buchanan ran into problems down the road.
COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION ROBERT D. NOVAK 2000
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Not many losers are Republicans proportionally, which is why Buchanan ran into problems down the road.
COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION ROBERT D. NOVAK 2000
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Not many losers are Republicans proportionally, which is why Buchanan ran into problems down the road.
COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION ROBERT D. NOVAK 2000
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Part-time workers should be entitled proportionally to the same statutory protection as full time workers, the government's green paper on a new employment standards statute for South Africa says.
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Francis Pizarro as their generall, according to his decree and calling proportionally, had more then any of the rest, ouer and besides the massie table of gold which Atabalipa had in his Letter, which waighed 25000. pezos of gold: neuer were there before that day souldiers so rich in so small a time, and with so little danger And in this iourney for want of yron, they did shoe their horses, some with gold, and some with siluer.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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