prop : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: prop	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prop n a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props" Synonym(s): property, prop a propeller that rotates to push against air Synonym(s): airplane propeller, airscrew, prop v support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" Synonym(s): prop up, prop, shore up, shore
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prop \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. [bd]Two props of virtue.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prop \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prop \Prop\, n. A shell, used as a die. See {Props}.