Definitions for propositions

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propositions prop·o·si·tion

Spelling: [prop-uh-zish-uh n]

IPA: /ˌprɒp əˈzɪʃ ən/

Propositions is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 444 anagrams from letters in propositions (iinooopprsst).

Definitions for propositions

noun

1. the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
2. a plan or scheme proposed.
3. an offer of terms for a transaction, as in business.
4. a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered:
5. anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
6. Rhetoric. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
7. Logic. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
8. Mathematics. a formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.
9. a proposal of usually illicit sexual relations.
10. the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
11. a plan or scheme proposed.
12. an offer of terms for a transaction, as in business.
13. a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered:
14. anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
15. Rhetoric. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
16. Logic. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
17. Mathematics. a formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.
18. a proposal of usually illicit sexual relations.

verb (used with object)

1. to propose sexual relations to.
2. to propose a plan, deal, etc., to.
3. to propose sexual relations to.
4. to propose a plan, deal, etc., to.

Origin of propositions

1300-50; Middle English proposicio(u)n Latin prōpositiōn- (stem of prōpositiō) a setting forth. See propositus, -ion

Examples for propositions

An HIV scare, Rand Paul talking points, and a (maybe) proposition.

This proposition is one of keen interest in connection with aviation.

And Mrs. Roberts smiled, and assented to the statement, but not to the proposition.

I think the proposition is still debatable, or at least still in formation.

Here is my proposition: You choose one of those girls and marry her.

You say that the one proposition is an inference from the other.

It stands for the proposition that the biological basis of procreation should also be the sole organizing principle of society.

This is the proposition which I intended to enforce in the present section.

But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics.

The lack of love likely stems from DeMaio's silence on proposition 8.

Such are the modes in which propositions and terms may be ambiguous.'

But there is no harmony, he said, in the two propositions that knowledge is recollection, and that the soul is a harmony.

But your propositions run out of one ear as they ran in at the other.

Later, he propositions Peggy once more, this time in her office.

Obama committed the U.S. to two propositions on Sunday, in his 60 Minutes interview.

The propositions were favourably received, and by no less a person than Nauclidas.

All the propositions which he introduced were for the welfare and benefit of the people.

He brought me cookies his wife made and he propositions me while I'm eating one.

"We are accepting no propositions this week," said Mabel with dignity.

But over the past year, the evidence in support of all three propositions has just kept mounting.