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Apposed vs Opposite - What's the difference?

apposed | opposite |

As a verb apposed

is (appose).

As an adjective opposite is

located directly across from something else, or from each other.

As a noun opposite is

something opposite or contrary to another.

As an adverb opposite is

in an opposite position.

As a preposition opposite is

facing, or across from.

apposed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (appose)

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    appose

    English

    Etymology 1

    Variant form of oppose.

    Verb

    (appos)
  • (obsolete) To interrogate; to question.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
    • Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

    Etymology 2

    Coined based on (etyl) , by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

    Verb

    (appos)
  • To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
  • To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
  • * Chapman
    • The nymph herself did then appose , / For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
    Related terms
    * apposite * apposition * inapposite ----

    opposite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
    • She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
  • Facing in the other direction.
    • They were moving in opposite directions.
  • Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
    • He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
  • Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
  • * Dryden
    • Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
  • * John Locke
    • Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.

    Derived terms

    * opposite sex

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something opposite or contrary to another.
  • An opponent.
  • An antonym.
    • "Up" is the opposite of "down".
  • (mathematics) An additive inverse.

    • Derived terms

    * opposites attract

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an opposite position.
    • I was on my seat and she stood opposite .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Facing, or across from.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
  • In a complementary role to.
  • :

    • See also

    * apposite

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