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Opponent vs Apposition - What's the difference?

opponent | apposition |

As nouns the difference between opponent and apposition

is that opponent is an individual or group who is a rival of another while apposition is apposition.

As an adjective opponent

is situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

opponent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An individual or group who is a rival of another.
  • One who attempts to stop the progression of.
  • One who objects to.
  • In team sports, a player of an opposite team.

    • Antonyms

    * supporter * proponent * advocate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
    • (Alexander Pope)
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    apposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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