Prop
[prɒp] or [prɑp]
Definition
(noun.) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling.
Typed by Harley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.
(v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.
(v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.
Typist: Rudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Support, sustain, uphold, hold up, shore up.
n. Support, stay, brace, FULCRUM.
Edited by Lilian
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Support, stay, buttress, shore, strut, pin
ANT:Superstructure, superincumbency, top-weight, gravitation, extirpation,subverter, destroyer
SYN:Sustain, support, stay, maintain,[See SUPPORT]
Editor: Moll
Definition
n. anything on which a weight rests for support: a support: a stay.—v.t. to keep from falling by means of something placed under or against: to support or to sustain in any way:—pr.p. prop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. propped.—n. Prop′page.
Editor: Vito
Examples
- The big men from Machiavelli through Rousseau to Karl Marx brought history, logic, science and philosophy to prop up and strengthen their deepest desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Select a smooth board 4 feet long and prop it so that the end _A_ (Fig. 104) is 1 foot above the level of the table; the length of the incline is then 4 times as great as its height. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Prop the board so that the end _A_ is 2 feet above the table level; that is, arrange the inclined plane in such a way that its length is twice as great as its height. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- While one fellow creature remains to whom aid can be afforded, stay by and prop your shattered, falling engine! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The last inconvenience would soon have become intolerable, had I not found means to open and prop up the skylight, thus admitting some freshness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At the very time when with keen delight she welcomed the tokens of maternity, this sole prop of her life failed, her husband died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Simmons sat propped up by the pillows and smoked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She came to him as he lay propped up in the library. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was propped up on a bed-rest, and always had his gold-headed stick lying by him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The bed was in the centre of the room, and in it, propped up with pillows, was the owner of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His judgment, however, wanted surgical props; it was rickety. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Ye'll need propping. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Katy