Proportion

Definition

proportion /prǝ'pↄ:ʃn/ n ၁။ [CGp] အစိတ္အပိုင္းတစ္ရပ္။ Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface. ❍ The proportion of regular smokers increases sharply with age. ❍ A higher proportion of Americans go on to higher education than is the case in Britain. ၂။ [U] ~ (of sth to sth) အခ်ဳိးအစား။ အခ်ဳိး။ The proportion of men to women in the college has changed dramatically over the years. ❍ The basic ingredients are limestone and clay in the proportion 2:1. ၃။ [U,C usu pl ] အခ်ဳိးအစားတက်ရိွျခင္း။ It is rare for the iron and silica to be present in just the right proportions. ❍ A garden design should reflect nature in shape, proportion and size. ၄။ proportions [pl] ပမာဏ။ အတိုင္းအဆ။ a food shortage that could soon reach alarming proportions ❍ a room of modest proportions. ၅။ [U] ( mathematics ) အခ်ဳိး။ ‘4 is to 8 as 6 is to 12’ is a statement of proportion. ❏ in proportion [ IDM ] အခ်ဳိးအစားက်က်။ သူ႕ အတိုင္းအတာႏွင့္သူ။ You haven't drawn the figures in the foreground in proportion. ❍ The problem of hooliganism should be kept in proportion–only a small number of young people act in this way. ❍ Her figure is perfectly in proportion. ❏ in proportion to sth [ IDM ] အခ်ဳိးအစား ေျပေျပျပစ္ျပစ္ႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းစာလွ်င္။ The garden is very long in proportion to its width. ❏ out of (all) proportion ( to sth ) [ IDM ] အလြန္အကြၽံ။ They earn salaries out of all proportion to their ability. ❍ The media have blown the incident up out of all proportion. ❏ out of proportion (to sth) [ IDM ] မလိုက္ဖက္ေအာင္။ I've drawn the head out of proportion to ( the size of ) the body. ❍ a severe punishment that was out of proportion to the crime. ❏ proportioned adj (esp in compounds) အခ်ဳိးအစား (က်)ေသာ။ a well proportioned room ❍ his perfectly proportioned body.

Examples

1. [proportion of] : Only a small proportion of graduates fail to find employment.
2. [the proportion of something to something] : The proportion of trucks to cars on the roads has changed dramatically.
3. Genovese’s work shows a wonderful sense of proportion and design.
4. [in proportion] : Everything about the room is beautifully in proportion.
5. [in proportion to/with something] : His head is large in proportion to his small frame.
6. [out of proportion (to/with something)] : The figures in the painting are completely out of proportion with their surroundings.
7. A chair of graceful proportions
8. The tree can grow to massive proportions.
9. A disaster of catastrophic proportions
10. The story began to take on mythic proportions.