proportionize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To ensure that everything is in proper proportion to form a harmonious or properly functioning whole.
Example Sentences
- "Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side."
- "The New Tesstament precepts do need, if not to be re-written, at all events to be interpreted and, as it were, proportionized, before they can be wholesomely and wisely applied to the special needs of our, or any, generation."
- "They come in regular dress sizes, but are proportionized to tall, medium, and short figures."
- "If a single capitalist sends money abroad where he gets 10 per cent interest, although he could provicde employment within his own country for a mass of surplus people, he deserves a civic crown from the capitalistic standpoint, since this virtuous bourgeois carries out the law which apportions capital within the world market just as within the walls of a society just in accordance with the rate of profit which particular spheres of production offer, and precisely thereby equalizes the rate of profit and proportionizes production."
Etymology
From proportion + -ize.