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"text": "What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?",
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"ref": "1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237",
"text": "In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To divide into proper shares; to apportion."
],
"links": [
[
"apportion",
"apportion"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To form symmetrically."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To form symmetrically."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Art"
],
"glosses": [
"To set or render in proportion."
],
"links": [
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, art) To set or render in proportion."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"art",
"arts"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To correspond to."
],
"links": [
[
"correspond",
"correspond"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic) To correspond to."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈpɔːʃən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃən/",
"note": "rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈpoəʃən/",
"note": "non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)ʃən"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-proportion.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/En-us-proportion.ogg/En-us-proportion.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/En-us-proportion.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎglasuvam",
"sense": "to set or render in proportion",
"word": "съгласувам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎrazmerjavam",
"sense": "to set or render in proportion",
"word": "съразмерявам"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to set or render in proportion",
"word": "arányosít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to set or render in proportion",
"word": "arányba állít"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to set or render in proportion",
"word": "proporcionar"
}
],
"word": "proportion"
}
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