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prone

adj
/pɹəʊn/UK/pɹoʊn/CA/pɹəʉn/

Etymology

From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from prō (“forward”).

  1. derived from prōnus — “turned forward, bent or inclined”
  2. inherited from prone

Definitions

  1. Lying face-down.

    • prone position

  2. Of the hand, forearm or foot

    Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.

    • The hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.

  3. Having a downward inclination or slope.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Shooting from a position while lying down.

    2. Predisposed, liable, inclined, given (to something) (most often, specifically to being…

      Predisposed, liable, inclined, given (to something) (most often, specifically to being befallen by an unsought bad outcome, rather than to undertaking a willful behavior or to having a happy accident).

      • prone to failure
      • Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: […]

    3. To place in a prone position, to place face down.

    4. Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”).

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Derived

accident-prone, atheroprone, error-prone, fault-prone, flood-prone, floodprone, gossip-prone, injury-prone, overprone, pronate, pronation, -prone, prone-bone, proned, proneness, prone position, prone positioning, prone to, proning, semiprone, unprone

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prone. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prone. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at prone

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA