different between apposition vs appose

English

Etymology

From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositi?, past participle of app?nere (“to put near”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æp??z??n?/

Noun

apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)

1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

   Synonym: parathesis
2. (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
3. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
5. (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
6. (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
7. A public disputation by scholars.
8. (Britain) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

Translations

Further reading

• apposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

apposition

1. Genitive singular form of appositio.

French

Etymology

From Latin appositi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.po.zi.sj??/

Noun

apposition f (plural appositions)

1. apposition

Related terms

• apposer

Further reading

• “apposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??z/
• Homophone: oppose

Etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

     Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

Etymology 2

Coined based on Latin app?n?, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

Related terms

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: apposent, apposes

Verb

appose

1. first-person singular present indicative of apposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of apposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
5. second-person singular imperative of apposer

Italian

Verb

appose

1. third-person singular past historic of apporre

Anagrams

• appeso