0 having parts of the size or shape that is described: --
humorous The generously proportioned (= fat) singer has to have all his garments specially made.
We wandered through the beautifully proportioned rooms of the Winter Palace.
In several cities and other areas the original allocations have been inadequately proportioned, and steps have been taken with a view to remedying these defects.
The composition of these establishments cannot be directly proportioned to the strength of the fighting forces.
It is a tax which is to be proportioned to the actual increment value which the owner receives.
They may be proportioned to salary, and may be assessed on the average salary the teacher receives during the last five years of service.
There can be no justification in this case, if you consider the maxim that taxation should be proportioned to capacity to pay.
What had once been a marsh open to all social classes had now become a generously proportioned forum for respectable recreation before the uniform houses of the wealthiest merchants.
Decision theory thus shows how actions can be rationally proportioned to inconclusive evidence.
Classically proportioned and sparingly scored, the sonata-form first movement presents a suave, almost urbane first subject satisfyingly contrasted with its muddy-footed country cousin of a second subject.
