Word Meanings - QUOTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley. (more info) what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to
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- CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - SHAREBEAM
The part of the plow to which the share is attached. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - PARTICIPATION
1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of - QUOTABLE
Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. -- Quot`a*bit"i*ty, n. Poe. - QUOTATIONIST
One who makes, or is given to making, quotations. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. Milton. - SHAREBROKER
A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities. - QUOTA
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley. (more info) what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to - DIVISIONAL
That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints. - CONTINGENTLY
In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally. - PORTION
1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard - PORTIONER
See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions. - SHAREWORT
A composite plant growing along the seacoast of Europe. - ALLOWANCE
A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; - PORTIONLESS
Having no portion. - ALLOTMENT
The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. (more info) 1. The act of allotting; assignment. - SHARER
One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer. - DIVISIONOR
One who divides or makes division. Sheldon. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - MISDIVISION
Wrong division. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - DISPROPORTIONATE
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. - PROPORTION
1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his - PROPORTIONABLE
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. - IMPROPORTIONABLE
Not proportionable. B. Jonson.