| propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| propellor | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propeller |
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| propenal | (noun) a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene | Synonyms: acrolein |
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| propene | (noun) a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis | Synonyms: propylene |
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| propenoate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: acrylate |
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| propenonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| propensity | (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: aptness |
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| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, proclivity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, tendency |
| proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | - |
| (adjective) limited to the thing specified | - |
| properly | (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, right |
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| (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, suitably |
| (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, just, precisely |
| properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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| propertied | (adjective) owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue | Synonyms: property-owning |
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| property | (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: prop |
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| (noun) a basic or essential property shared by all members of a class | - |
| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, dimension |
| (noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, holding |
| propertyless | (adjective) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | Synonyms: blue-collar, wage-earning, working-class |
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| prophase | (noun) the first stage of mitosis | - |
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| (noun) the first stage of meiosis | - |
| prophecy | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prognostication, vaticination |
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| (noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: divination |
| prophesier | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophet, seer, vaticinator |
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| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| prophet | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, seer, vaticinator |
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| (noun) someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God | - |
| prophetess | (noun) a woman prophet | - |
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| prophetic | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetical |
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| prophetical | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetic |
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| prophetically | (adverb) in a prophetic manner | - |
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| prophylactic | (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: cautionary |
| (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, contraceptive |
| (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, rubber, safe, safety |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
| prophylaxis | (noun) the prevention of disease | - |
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| prophyll | (noun) a plant structure resembling a leaf | - |
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| propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: proximity |
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| propionaldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propanal |
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| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| propitiation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, placation |
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| (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
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| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | - |
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| propitiously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: auspiciously |
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| propitiousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: auspiciousness |
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| propjet | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: turbo-propeller plane, turboprop |
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| propman | (noun) member of the stage crew in charge of properties | Synonyms: property man, property master |
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| proponent | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, exponent |
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| proportion | (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: dimension |
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| (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportionality |
| (noun) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole | - |
| (noun) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | Synonyms: ratio |
| (noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: symmetry |
| (verb) adjust in size relative to other things | - |
| (verb) give pleasant proportions to | - |
| proportionable | (adjective) proportionate | - |
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| proportional | (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) having a constant ratio | - |
| (noun) one of the quantities in a mathematical proportion | - |
| proportionality | (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportion |
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| (noun) a ratio of two quantities that is constant | - |
| proportionally | (adverb) to a proportionate degree | Synonyms: proportionately |
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| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| proportionately | (adverb) to a proportionate degree | Synonyms: proportionally |
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| (adverb) in a way that is in correspondence among the constituents of another entity | - |
| (adverb) in a way that agrees in amount, magnitude or degree | Synonyms: pro rata |
| proportionateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, correspondence |
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| proposal | (noun) something proposed (such as a plan or assumption) | - |
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| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposition |
| (noun) an offer of marriage | Synonyms: marriage offer, marriage proposal, proposal of marriage |
| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| proposer | (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: mover |
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| (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: suggester |
| proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
| (noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
| (verb) suggest sex to | - |
| propositus | (noun) the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
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| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| propoxyphene | (noun) a mildly narcotic analgesic drug (trade name Darvon) related to methadone but less addictive | Synonyms: Darvon, propoxyphene hydrochloride |
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| propranolol | (noun) the first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor | Synonyms: Inderal |
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| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
| proprietor | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: owner |
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| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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| propriety | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, properness |
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| proprioception | (noun) the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts | - |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| proprioceptor | (noun) special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body | - |
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| proprionamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: propanamide |
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| props | (noun) proper respect | - |
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| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
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| (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
| propyl | (noun) the monovalent organic group C3H7- obtained from propane | Synonyms: propyl group, propyl radical |
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| propylene | (noun) a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis | Synonyms: propene |
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| propylthiouracil | (noun) a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter | - |
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| prorate | (verb) divide or assess proportionally | - |
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| (verb) make a proportional settlement or distribution | - |
| proration | (noun) the proportional limitation of production or distribution of something (e.g. crude oil or natural gas) to some fractional part of the total capacity of each producer | - |
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| prorogation | (noun) discontinuation of the meeting (of a legislative body) without dissolving it | - |
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| prorogue | (verb) adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| prosaic | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosy |
| (adjective) not fanciful or imaginative | Synonyms: matter-of-fact |
| prosaically | (adverb) in a matter-of-fact manner | Synonyms: unimaginatively |
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| prosaicness | (noun) commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting | Synonyms: prosiness |
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| proscenium | (noun) the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater | Synonyms: proscenium wall |
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| (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, forestage |
| prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| proscription | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: banishment |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, prohibition |
| prose | (noun) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | - |
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| (noun) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression | - |
| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| prosecution | (noun) the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior | Synonyms: criminal prosecution |
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| (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: pursuance |
| (noun) the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant | - |
| prosecutor | (noun) a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state | Synonyms: prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor |
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| proselyte | (noun) a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism | - |
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| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytism | (noun) the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| (noun) the practice of proselytizing | - |
| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| proseminar | (noun) a course of study like a graduate seminar but often open to advanced undergraduates. | - |
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| prosencephalon | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: forebrain |
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| prosily | (adverb) in a prosy manner | - |
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| prosimian | (noun) primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits | - |
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| prosiness | (noun) commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting | Synonyms: prosaicness |
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| prosociality | (noun) The quality of being beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores. | - |
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| prosodic | (adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing | - |
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| prosodion | (noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: processional |
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| prosody | (noun) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | Synonyms: metrics |
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| (noun) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language | Synonyms: inflection |
| (noun) (prosody) a system of versification | Synonyms: poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern |
| prosopopoeia | (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: personification |
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| prospect | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prognosis |
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| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, outlook |
| (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: candidate |
| (noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: chance |
| (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
| (verb) search for something desirable | - |