Word Meanings - QUOTUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Part or proportion; quota. "A very small quotum." Max Müller.
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- QUOTUM
Part or proportion; quota. "A very small quotum." Max Müller. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - PROPORTION
1. 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. The image of Christ, made after his - QUOTABLE
Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. -- Quot`a*bit"i*ty, n. Poe. - PROPORTIONABLE
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - QUOTATIONIST
One who makes, or is given to making, quotations. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. Milton. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - PROPORTIONALITY
The state of being in proportion. Coleridge. - PROPORTIONATENESS
The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale. - QUOTA
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley. (more info) what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - PROPORTIONLESS
Without proportion; unsymmetrical. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - PROPORTIONABLY
Proportionally. Locke. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - QUOTATION
The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named. 4. Quota; share. (more info) 1. The act of quoting or citing. 2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - DISPROPORTIONATE
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. - IMPROPORTIONABLE
Not proportionable. B. Jonson.