| 单词 | apposition |
| 释义 | apposition (once / 17356 pages) 1n 2n 3n When you put two things right next to each other, you can call that apposition. The apposition of your dog and your cat makes an adorable photograph. Though you can use the noun apposition to talk about the positioning of objects — or words — close together, it's usually found in scientific or technical writing. In grammar, an apposition occurs when two words or phrases are placed beside each other in a sentence so that one describes or defines the other. An example is the phrase "my dog Woofers," in which "my dog" is in apposition to the name "Woofers." WORD FAMILYapposition: appositional, appositions+/appose: apposable, apposed, apposing, apposition, appositive/appositive: appositively USAGE EXAMPLESWith its unbalanced nouns in apposition, the film’s title hints at the absurdity of the way human beings think. The New Yorker(Jun 14, 2016) It should be in apposition with “he,” not with “his efforts.” New York Times(Mar 01, 2016) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) 1 n the act of positioning close together (or side by side) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper collocation, juxtaposition tessellation the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning the act of putting something in a certain place n a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows 3`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition Hyper limiting, modification, qualifying the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase n (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material Hyper development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level |
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