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Meaning prop meaning

What does prop mean?
Definitions in simple English

prop Noun

— A prop is an object that is supporting another object by being place underneath it or in some other way leaning against it.

prop Verb

— When something is propped, it supported or held up by something else.

prop

— noun a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling — verb (= shore) support by placing against something solid or rigid shore and buttress an old building — noun any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie before every scene he ran down his checklist of props — noun (= airplane propeller) a propeller that rotates to push against air

Synonyms prop synonyms

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prop English » English

support stay brace strut rest prop up pillar uphold hold up buttress post sustain lean stanchion shore propeller back underpin pedestal bolster backing airscrew abutment stake second reinforce property mainstay espouse easel crutch carry bearing underlay thrust supporting block subvention standard stand by stand sponsor shore up pole pier mast maintain level leg hold help

PROP English » English

propulsion propeller

Topics prop topics

What do people use prop to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Support

  • What words refer to putting something under or against something to keep it from falling?
    prop (up)
  • What words refer to something that is put under or against something to keep it from falling?
    prop support brace retaining wall
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Movie
Social behavior Social activity

Drama
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping

Conjugation prop conjugation

How do you conjugate prop?

prop · verb

Examples prop examples

How do I use prop in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live.
He fetched a few cushions to prop up her head.

Movie subtitles

It's a nice prop.
It looks like it's just a prop to me.
Well, if it's a prop, it's really well-made 'cause you see the barbs.
Take off that prop room mask!
Prop him up in the chair facing the wall.
I. used it yesterday. to prop open the kitchen door.
I'm tired of being a prop here!
His mother's been the prop that's held him up.
Shaft's twisted like a corkscrew, and there's a blade off the prop.
We could write the makers for a new prop.
Then we put the new shaft in and the new prop and go on our way.
I was forgetting the prop.
The prop would be off balance.
Get something to prop this door, something short enough to get under this bolt!
This is my prop box.
Yeah. The shaft's twisted like a corkscrew and there's a blade gone off the prop.
Then we could write to the makers for a new prop.
Then we'd put the new shaft in and the new prop and go on our way as if nothing had happened.
No. The prop would be out of balance. The shaft would be all twisted up like a corkscrew again.
Cut the prop!
The cobbler's locked in the prop room!
No, but there's one in the prop room.
In the prop room. He's had an accident.
Well, don't just stand there, look in the prop room.
They usually leave a stick around. You can prop it open.
Prop nicked him.
Prop?
Yeah, but not without no prop.
There's the bill for the prop.
A prop that's become a nuisance.
We didn't invent our non-existent man and give him the name of George Kaplan establish elaborate behavior patterns for him move his prop belongings in and out of hotel rooms, for our private amusement.
Or had he invented that tender moment to prop up the madness to come?
A useful prop for your new government. No.
A couple of you guys come up and pull this prop through.
Take it, genius, prop up this ruin!
Can't you prop it up on something?
Best prop forward we ever had. What killed him?
The prop man told me you only drink under pressure.

News and current affairs

The European Central Bank has acted decisively to prop up European banks; now it needs to support the real economy, too.
But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem.
As central bankers and finance ministers ponder how to intervene to prop up the dollar, they should also start thinking about what to do when the time comes to pull the plug.
Do people think it is easy for a 12-trillion-dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries' reputations for stability?
The federal government - under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama - allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the mega-banks, while allowing hundreds of these crucially important smaller lenders to fail.
In addition, it takes the heat off an undervalued currency as a prop to export growth, giving China considerable leeway to step up the pace of currency reforms.
Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.
The IMF did not want Russia to devalue, and it provided billions of dollars to prop up the exchange rate.
But Putin will most likely try to prop up eastern Ukraine's separatists as long as he can - perhaps with military assistance disguised as humanitarian aid - and will absolutely refuse to give up Crimea.
But the illiberalism inherent in Russian imperialism is not limited to recent behavior, and, more disturbingly, it extends to the question of Georgia's territorial integrity, as Russian troops continue to prop up secessionist regions.
Citizens are aware of the hundreds of billions of euros and dollars that have been used to prop up banks.
With America's loss of interest the chief prop of neo-liberal policies has been pulled away.
Third, China has had to rely on another round of monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus to prop up an unbalanced and unsustainable growth model based on excessive exports and fixed investment, high saving, and low consumption.
True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.
President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large-scale government spending to prop up the real economy.
Moreover, once a market correction begins, the authorities should allow it to run its course, rather than prop up prices with additional leverage - an approach that only prolongs the correction.
Changing the rules of the game to prop up personal rule would help perpetuate weaknesses such as a lack of accountability, and prevent important government policies from becoming entrenched as state policies.
In the absence of a vigorous international re-investment program, monetary policy is being used to prop up growth.
Do we want to live in a system where profits are private, but losses are socialized, where taxpayer money is used to prop up failed firms?
Although this plan would prop up the value of the financial system as a whole, it would still allow market forces to determine relative share prices of individual banks.
In the meantime, no one can predict the ends to which Putin will go to prop up his presidency.
The first misconception is that he desperately sought Chinese aid to prop up his regime in the face of seething discontent after botched currency reforms.

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