Opposition vs Counterplot - What's the difference?
opposition | counterplot |
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.
(transitive) To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.
* De Quincey
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As nouns the difference between opposition and counterplot
is that opposition is the opposition, political opposition; opposition party while counterplot is a plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.As a verb counterplot is
(transitive) to form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.opposition
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Noun
(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 .}}
Antonyms
* appositionExternal links
* (wikipedia) ----counterplot
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Hypernyms
* plotVerb
(counterplott)- Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted .
- for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him.