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Propanolols
- noun - the first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor
Proportions
- noun - adjust in size relative to other things
- balance among the parts of something
- give pleasant proportions to; "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
- magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions"
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree; "an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations"; "a dry martini has a large proportion of gin"
Proprietors
- noun - (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants"
Propulsions
- noun - a propelling force
- the act of propelling
Prosecutors
- noun - a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Prospectors
- noun - someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
Proteaceous
- - Of or pertaining to the Proteace, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia.
Protections
- noun - a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury; "they had no protection from the fallout"; "wax provided protection for the floors"
- defense against financial failure; financial independence; "his pension gave him security in his old age"; "insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness"
- kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council"
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection"
- the activity of protecting someone or something; "the witnesses demanded police protection"
- the condition of being protected; "they were huddled together for protection"; "he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition; "he made trade protection a plank in the party platform"