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apposition
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)
- (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
- (grammar) 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.
- (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (Britain) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
Translations
Further reading
- apposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Noun
apposition
- Genitive singular form of appositio.
French
Etymology
From Latin appositi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.po.zi.sj??/
Noun
apposition f (plural appositions)
- apposition
Related terms
- apposer
Further reading
- “apposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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apposite
English
Etymology
From Latin appositus, past participle of adponere, from ad- + ponere (“to put, place”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?a.p?.z?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æ.p?.z?t/, IPA(key): /??p?z?t/
Adjective
apposite (comparative more apposite, superlative most apposite)
- Strikingly appropriate or relevant; well suited to the circumstance or in relation to something.
- c. 1833–1856, Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3,
- Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; [...].
- 1919, H. L. Mencken, The American Language: An inquiry into the development of English in the United States, Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
- Rough-neck is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English navvy, and it is over-whelmingly more American.
- c. 1833–1856, Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3,
- Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
- 1971, University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 34, page 262,
- In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
- 1971, University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 34, page 262,
- Related, homologous.
- 2000, David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles, in Pericles: Critical Essays,
- If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.
- 2000, David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles, in Pericles: Critical Essays,
Synonyms
- (appropriate or relevant): to the point; See also Thesaurus:pertinent
- (positioned at rest in respect to another):
- (related): See also Thesaurus:connected
Related terms
- appositely
- appositeness
- apposition
Translations
Noun
apposite (plural apposites)
- (rare) That which is apposite; something suitable.
See also
- opposite
References
Italian
Adjective
apposite
- feminine plural of apposito
Latin
Participle
apposite
- vocative masculine singular of appositus
References
- apposite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apposite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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