See disproportion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for disproportion meaning in English (6.3kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "cephalopelvic disproportion"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "proportion"
},
"expansion": "dis- + proportion",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dis- + proportion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "disproportions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "disproportion (countable and uncountable, plural disproportions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 15 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 26 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 26 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 23 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 22 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 23 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 25 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 208",
"text": "[…] a handsome creature, remarkably so, with features so symmetrical […] that a micrometer gauge could scarcely find a disproportion in her smooth and broad mahogany-coloured face.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978 December 9, Nancy Walker, “Sexism and Racism at GCN?”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 10",
"text": "Then we, the social outsiders, turn around and dictate how men shall treat women (seldom, if ever, how women shall treat men; power in men's rather than women's hands being the excuse offered for this lop-sided arrangement), and how whites shall treat blacks (the same disproportion exists here too).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "the disproportion of the length of a building to its height"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state of being out of proportion; an abnormal or improper ratio; an imbalance."
],
"id": "en-disproportion-en-noun-arzYAuW4",
"links": [
[
"proportion",
"proportion"
],
[
"ratio",
"ratio"
],
[
"imbalance",
"imbalance"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nesǎrazmernost",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "несъразмерност"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desproporció"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"word": "misproporcio"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dysproporcja"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desproporción"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 15 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 26 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the disproportion of strength or means to an object"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness."
],
"id": "en-disproportion-en-noun-sZnDg0ID",
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "disproportion"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "proportion"
},
"expansion": "dis- + proportion",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dis- + proportion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "disproportions",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "disproportioning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "disproportioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "disproportioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "disproportion (third-person singular simple present disproportions, present participle disproportioning, simple past and past participle disproportioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 15 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 26 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch."
],
"id": "en-disproportion-en-verb-pTzi-gan",
"links": [
[
"unsuitable",
"unsuitable"
],
[
"quantity",
"quantity"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"fitness",
"fitness"
],
[
"violate",
"violate"
],
[
"symmetry",
"symmetry"
],
[
"mismatch",
"mismatch"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "disproportion"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with dis-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cephalopelvic disproportion"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "proportion"
},
"expansion": "dis- + proportion",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dis- + proportion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "disproportions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "disproportion (countable and uncountable, plural disproportions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 208",
"text": "[…] a handsome creature, remarkably so, with features so symmetrical […] that a micrometer gauge could scarcely find a disproportion in her smooth and broad mahogany-coloured face.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978 December 9, Nancy Walker, “Sexism and Racism at GCN?”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 10",
"text": "Then we, the social outsiders, turn around and dictate how men shall treat women (seldom, if ever, how women shall treat men; power in men's rather than women's hands being the excuse offered for this lop-sided arrangement), and how whites shall treat blacks (the same disproportion exists here too).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "the disproportion of the length of a building to its height"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state of being out of proportion; an abnormal or improper ratio; an imbalance."
],
"links": [
[
"proportion",
"proportion"
],
[
"ratio",
"ratio"
],
[
"imbalance",
"imbalance"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "the disproportion of strength or means to an object"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nesǎrazmernost",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "несъразмерност"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desproporció"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"word": "misproporcio"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dysproporcja"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the state of being out of proportion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desproporción"
}
],
"word": "disproportion"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with dis-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "proportion"
},
"expansion": "dis- + proportion",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dis- + proportion",
"forms": [
{
"form": "disproportions",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "disproportioning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "disproportioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "disproportioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "disproportion (third-person singular simple present disproportions, present participle disproportioning, simple past and past participle disproportioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch."
],
"links": [
[
"unsuitable",
"unsuitable"
],
[
"quantity",
"quantity"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"fitness",
"fitness"
],
[
"violate",
"violate"
],
[
"symmetry",
"symmetry"
],
[
"mismatch",
"mismatch"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-AcpoKrane-disproportion.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "disproportion"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.