Apposition vs Opposition - What's the difference?
apposition | opposition | Antonyms |
(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
(rhetoric) Appositio
The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
An opposite or contrasting position.
An opponent in some form of competition.
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, title= (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
(senseid)(politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
(legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
Opposition is a antonym of apposition.
As nouns the difference between apposition and opposition
is that apposition is a construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence while opposition is the action of opposing or of being in conflict.apposition
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(en noun)opposition
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(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition .}}