0 to support something physically, often by leaning it against something else or putting something under it: --
1 an object used by the actors performing in a play or film: --
2 informal for propeller --
3 an object that is used to support something by holding it up: --
4 respect for someone: --
5 to support something by putting something else under or against it: --
Many of the children who learned the segmentation task using the external supports were later able to perform the task when the props were removed.
In the presence of diaphragmatic weakness, oxygenation should be better when upright (sitting, standing, propped up in bed) than when supine.
Moreover, there are instances of prop it where the meaning (referent) of it is largely context-dependent and as such can be questioned by what.
For each item, a line-drawn picture was used as a prop to depict the sentence.
A committee of the commonalty had been granted access to city records to help settle differences or to prop up their defence.
Further, recipients still have around them the material props to biography and identity that are associated with home.
Often they use physical props from around the house or yard, such as old lesson books or pretend chalkboards made from sheets of galvanized metal.
The child's choices dictated the particular toys or props that the characters acted on.
