Proportion vs Portion - What's the difference?
proportion | portion | Derived terms |
(lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion —which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”
(lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
(lb) Proper or equal share.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.
The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
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*(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)
*:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
* (1800-1859)
*:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.
A statement of equality between two ratios.
Size.
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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
One's fate; lot.
* Bible, Luke xii. 46
* Keble
The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
* Bible, Luke xv. 12
A wife's fortune; a dowry.
* 1613 , , V. iv. 31:
To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
To endow with a portion or inheritance.
Portion is a derived term of proportion.
As nouns the difference between proportion and portion
is that proportion is a quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number while portion is an allocated amount.As verbs the difference between proportion and portion
is that proportion is to set or render in proportion while portion is to divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.proportion
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Noun
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Derived terms
* in proportion * proportional * proportionally * proportionate * proportionerExternal links
* *portion
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lord of that servant will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Man's portion is to die and rise again.
- Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
- Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.
Usage notes
Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).Synonyms
* part * pieceDerived terms
* portionless * proportionVerb
(en verb)- Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. — Alexander Pope.