Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm faces down or back.
- v. To turn or rotate (the foot) by abduction and eversion so that the inner edge of the sole bears the body's weight.
- v. To place in a prone position.
- v. To become pronated.
- v. To assume a prone position.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To render prone; specifically, to rotate (the hand) so that its palmar surface faces in the same direction as the posterior surface of the ulna.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, anatomy To turn or rotate one’s hand and forearm so that the palm faces down if the forearm is horizontal, back if the arm is pointing down, or forward if the forearm is pointing up; to twist the right forearm counterclockwise or the left forearm clockwise.
- v. transitive, anatomy To twist the foot so that if walking the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot.
- v. intransitive, anatomy To become pronated.
- adj. Somewhat prone; inclined.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Somewhat prone; inclined.
WordNet 3.0
- v. turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards
Etymologies
- Latin pronatus, past participle of pronare to bend forward. See prone. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin prōnāre, prōnāt-, to bend forward, from prōnus, turned forward; see prone. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When your feet abnormally pronate, it will cause your arch to collapse towards the ground and flatten out.”
“Soles that are completely flat can cause feet to pronate (roll inward when walking).”
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“The changeup, you don't realize sometimes, when you throw it, you pronate," Lannan said, demonstrating by twisting his arm so his palm faced away from his body.”
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“With heavy topspin, the grips are smaller so the guys can pronate their wrists fast on their forehands," said Stan Smith, U.S.”
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“Speakers pronate their palms to signal power and certainty.”
“I don't pronate or have any big feet issues other than a relative lack of padding on the bottoms of my feet.”
“You have to scooch way up, and contort yourself as far onto your side as you can, and pronate both wrists no matter how tight the cuffs are, and slide your fingers under the mattress, which is pressed tight against the box spring by your weight, so you have to scooch even farther to the side, which puts more strain on your wrists—but it can be done.”
“Your feet wind up with too much room and that increases the tendency of the ankle to pronate.”
“It is no uncommon experience to find a patient walk into hospital with an impacted fracture of the neck of the femur or a fracture of the fibula; or to be able to pronate and supinate the forearm with a greenstick fracture of the radius or a fracture of the ulna.”
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
“-- The fragments approach the inter-osseous space; while there is more or less of deformity, preternatural mobility, absence of the power to pronate and supinate the army, and crepitus.”
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