Meaning of PROP
| Pronunciation: | | prâp
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- [n] a propeller that rotates to push against air
- [n] a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling
- [n] any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props"
- [v] support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
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| | Synonyms: | | airplane propeller, airscrew, prop up, property, shore, shore up |
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| | See Also: | | bolster, custard pie, hold, hold up, mise en scene, pitprop, propeller, propeller plane, propellor, setting, sprag, stage setting, stuff, sundries, sundry, support, support, sustain, whatchamacallit, whatsis | |
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\Prop\, n.
A shell, used as a die. See {Props}.
\Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Propped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Propping}.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust
into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of
uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago
set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. {Prop},
{Propagate}.]
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. --Shak.
Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.
--Pope.
For being not propp'd by ancestry. --Shak.
I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.
--Pope.
\Prop\, n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. prop stopple, stopper,
cork, Sw. propp, G. pfropf. See {Prop}, 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. ``Two props of virtue.'' --Shak.
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