What does opposite mean

Crossword clues for opposite

opposite

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

opposite

I.preposition

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

at one pole/at opposite poles

▪ We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other.

▪ Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles think in two completely different ways on this issue.

at the other/opposite extreme

▪ At the other extreme is a country like Switzerland with almost no unemployment.

exactly the opposite

▪ Kevin’s teachers saw him as quiet and serious, but with his friends he was exactly the opposite.

opposite ends of the spectrum

▪ The two articles here represent opposite ends of the spectrum.

the far/opposite corner of sth (=furthest from where you are)

▪ Something was moving in the far right corner of the garden.

the opposite conclusion

▪ A lot of scientific evidence supports the opposite conclusion.

the opposite direction

▪ The car crashed into a truck that was coming in the opposite direction.

the opposite sex (=people that were not his own sex)

▪ He found it difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex.

the opposite/facing page

▪ See the diagram on the opposite page.

the opposite/other end (of sth)

▪ Jon and his girlfriend were sitting at the opposite end of the bar.

the other/opposite side

▪ On the other side of the river are some low hills.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

diametrically opposed/opposite

▪ The women hold diametrically opposed views on abortion.

▪ A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life.

▪ Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.

▪ In essence, the founding giants of the computer industry were diametrically opposed in both platform and product.

▪ It is clear that Guthrie and Linforth follow diametrically opposed methods and reach contradictory conclusions about the nature and existence of Orphism.

▪ Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.

▪ The assumptions in the two systems are almost diametrically opposed.

▪ Therefore, introspection and self-observation are diametrically opposed in action and effect, and should never be confused one with another.

▪ To begin with, he was diametrically opposed to the economic ideas advocated by Adam Smith.

polar opposite/extreme

▪ CertainIV it should not accommodate its polar opposite.

▪ Eikmeyer's fundamental insight is that co-operation and non-co-operation are not simply polar opposites along a scale.

▪ However, the life-cycle savings model is the polar opposite case from pure classical savings.

▪ In fact the two strains-puritanism and pentecostalism-seem in some way to be nearly polar opposites.

▪ No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.

▪ Strickland was their polar opposite -- an irresponsible teammate and anti-leader.

▪ The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.

▪ When you bring together two polar opposites, the classless one will always drag the other one down.

the exact opposite (of sb/sth)

▪ At 80, you are the exact opposite.

▪ Gloraida Malave, for example, was the exact opposite of Mones or Abukar.

▪ He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.

▪ I said, which was about the exact opposite of what I really thought.

▪ Indeed, when it comes to the relative growth rates of imports and exports, the exact opposite is true.

▪ It is the exact opposite of the truth.

▪ John Major, he said, had the exact opposite of the Midas touch.

▪ This may not always be so - indeed, the exact opposite may be the case.

the other/opposite side of the coin

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Put the piano opposite the sofa.

II.adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

almost

▪ It now appears that in other species the same habit can have an almost opposite function.

▪ They were hit by joyriders almost opposite Springfield Primary school where Mrs Tully's four-year-old daughter was a new-start pupil.

▪ The prevalent and dominant winds may blow from the same direction or they may blow from almost opposite directions.

▪ Cathy was almost opposite Alan Tate and he was, watching her, or seemed to be.

▪ By fortunate chance, he was Karelius' right-hand neighbour, Fräulein Müller sitting almost opposite.

▪ Twenty four hour car park almost opposite the halls. 12.

diametrically

▪ Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.

▪ Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.

▪ Thus the same metaphor can lead to diametrically opposite understandings.

directly

▪ If you sit directly opposite an opponent, the sense of conflict may be heightened.

▪ He had recently bought a huge house there with a garden which bordered on the river, directly opposite Botolph's Wharf.

▪ The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church, so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself.

▪ Some Enterprise rooms are in the annexe directly opposite the main building.

▪ Half-way through their round trips, they are both directly opposite their starting point.

▪ In the same road was the school of journalism. Directly opposite, lay the National Theatre.

▪ Campbell set the matter in the directly opposite light.

▪ On the hospital side it opened into the basement under the Out Patients Department, which itself stood directly opposite our dining-room.

exactly

▪ But by 1860 the proportion was almost exactly opposite: 33.96 percent of receipts came from passengers and 66.04 percent from goods.

▪ Consider some firmly held, exactly opposite, positions on how easy the other guy has it.

▪ This is exactly opposite to most other museum's great Rembrandt holdings: the Metropolitan's Rembrandts are nearly all portraits.

▪ It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster's.

very

▪ The third reason for supporting live worship is the very opposite.

▪ Despite pressures for differentiation, the result was the very opposite of separation.

▪ The very opposite considerations lead to the success of businesses where intense customer contact is the basis of commerce.

▪ It's the very opposite of drawing.

▪ The very opposite is the truth.

▪ Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

▪ In fact the very opposite was true.

■ NOUN

bank

▪ Go through gate on to sunken road and over stile on opposite bank.

▪ I know that Ian Heaps was on that match, drawn on the opposite bank.

▪ On the opposite bank, Luke rolled off her back and lay on the grass.

▪ Two anglers on opposite banks were casting three-quarters of the way across.

▪ Another man was fishing from the opposite bank.

▪ I have seen foxes playing in the brambles, and once a red deer walked past on the opposite bank.

▪ The opposite bank showed dim as a cloud, two miles away or more.

▪ She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood.

conclusion

▪ Investigators who have reviewed the research have come to quite opposite conclusions.

▪ So two theories-truth in advertising and dishonest manipulation-seem to come to opposite conclusions.

▪ Constitutional theory would indicate the opposite conclusion.

▪ The two district courts that addressed this question reached opposite conclusions.

▪ Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner, but they led him to an opposite conclusion.

▪ A test of rightness would indicate the opposite conclusion.

corner

▪ On the opposite corner a dusty station wagon idled noisily at the red light.

▪ If a tear develops, peel from the opposite corner and work towards the damage.

▪ Both were poor shepherds of Aquitaine, though from opposite corners of the province.

▪ Over on the opposite corner, the Guardian Angels staged a counter demonstration.

▪ In the opposite corner was a portly man in a baggy tweed suit.

▪ Almost on the opposite corner to the chapel stood Donegal Castle, its gateway locked, for the ruins were unsafe.

▪ Inside were two cockerels in opposite corners, sore, bald things with a vestige of feathers.

direction

▪ Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass.

▪ The Civil Service Commission needs to be independent of the Council and this proposal would go in the opposite direction.

▪ Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction.

▪ Coming in the opposite direction ahead are three cars, then four.

▪ For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction, killing the other driver instantly.

▪ The evidence points in exactly the opposite direction.

▪ Their job then was to relay tradition from above to below, and congregants' requests in the opposite direction.

effect

▪ Crash dieting and yo-yo dieting, on the other hand, will have the opposite effect.

▪ The likelihood that one will never own an automobile can not fail to have the opposite effect.

▪ In fact, their campaign and the probably well-founded suspicion that the result had been rigged had the opposite effect.

▪ Where we followed his lead-particularly in low-income housing-we often had the opposite effect, crippling community-based organizations.

▪ Indeed, some of its recommendations will have the opposite effect.

▪ The Wall we hoped would insure our independence seems to be having an opposite effect.

▪ This was precisely the opposite effect to that of green.

end

▪ At one point, one of the girls was at one end of the classroom and the other at the opposite end.

▪ Place both bags on a table with the straws extending from opposite ends.

▪ As before, any shaping must be conducted at the opposite end of the knitting to the carriage.

▪ One way to look at Cleveland is to say it is at opposite ends of the political spectrum with San Francisco.

▪ The door was at the opposite end of the kitchen from where the telly was.

▪ Run it into two uplifts at opposite ends of the tank, and pack it with filter floss and carbon.

▪ Paradoxically, the other key to global food security lies at the opposite end of the technology scale.

extreme

▪ At the opposite extreme of a pulse of extremely long duration, the Fourier spectrum only contains extremely low frequencies.

▪ Alfonsina Storni seems to have veered as far as possible to the opposite extreme.

▪ At the opposite extreme, paupers' graves had long been unmarked; but in between, death had been the metaphorical leveller.

▪ The opposite extreme is to find one individual and share all the duties of parenthood equally, as albatrosses do.

number

▪ So does his opposite number in the Senate, Bennett Johnston of Louisiana.

▪ Suppose it simply killed off its opposite number, the one that came from the other grandparent of the embryo.

▪ Each of the 23 pairs of chromosomes is laid alongside its opposite number.

▪ Finding an opposite number is not always easy.

▪ Aki Hill is there, her opposite number at rival school Oregon State.

▪ My opposite numbers, you understand.

▪ His opposite number, Clive Lloyd, had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy.

numbers

▪ My opposite numbers, you understand.

▪ Their opposite numbers in the spending departments are the principal finance officers.

▪ He quickly made contact with all the leading sewerage companies, their advisers as well as his opposite numbers throughout the county.

page

▪ The drawing on the opposite page shows a mains stopcock with a draincock fitted above.

▪ As shown in the figure on the opposite page, these new elements represent the results that each technique tends to yield.

▪ Chanel, on the opposite page, was three months old.

▪ Write each one down on a table like the one on the opposite page.

▪ A typical ideal personnel specification might look like the table on the opposite page.

pole

▪ Besides, he was funny and youthful, the opposite pole to Matthew Blake.

▪ This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.

▪ Each pair in fact began to gravitate to opposite poles within the horizon which Dialectical Theology had opened up.

▪ They were at an opposite pole from the self-important, vacuous management.

▪ We were at the opposite poles of humanity.

sex

▪ Many siblings quarrel and fight particularly if they are of opposite sexes.

shore

▪ On the opposite shore I saw two large gray black shapes: moose!

▪ Once this fall was likened to a gigantic weir, its crest a straight line between Goat Island and the opposite shore.

▪ He reached the opposite shore and then returned in a blaze of fireworks.

▪ The sun has come to a standstill, hours above the river and the opposite shore.

▪ Wind whipping across sandbar on opposite shore, sand blowing across water.

side

▪ Then he began to move slowly and carefully past the table, on the opposite side to Moore.

▪ Primo waves his hand at his own reflection and that of the empty seat on the opposite side of the aisle.

▪ Instead, the former World Champion lunged at a white bishop on the opposite side of the board.

▪ You and your ex-wife live on opposite sides of the country.

▪ There is nothing inherently improbable about the same company producing both and selling them to opposite sides in a war.

▪ Even heavy trucks and buses are prohibited; they are confined to the Shenandoah Valley on the opposite side of the mountains.

▪ Two cars went down the street on the opposite side; on Quinn's side a motor-cyclist was approaching.

▪ They could only be opposite sides of a single coin.

sign

▪ The New Moon in your opposite sign of Sagittarius highlights a special relationship and a piece of news.

▪ Therefore K 1 and K 2 have opposite signs and the Gaussian curvature K is negative.

▪ At the outer edge of the wake, on the other hand, the advection term has the opposite sign.

▪ The equation for the energy of the mean flow contains a corresponding term of opposite sign.

view

▪ On the contrary, the opposite view is intellectually more compelling.

▪ Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Democratic party chairman, took the opposite view.

▪ The opposite view is referred to briefly in passing in the Council report.

▪ Republican Mountjoy takes the opposite view.

▪ The universities had taken the opposite view.

▪ Of course my new conservative acquaintances take the opposite view, sort of.

▪ I have the opposite view of money.

wall

▪ We had to edge sideways along with our arms outstretched against the opposite wall for support.

▪ Deep shelves on the opposite wall contained boxes of tinned food and crates of spirits.

▪ On the opposite wall, photographer Christopher Burkett plumbs the brilliant unnatural colors of the natural world.

▪ On the opposite wall, a print was mounted; an austere graphic design, white and grey to match.

▪ I stared at the opposite wall.

▪ The first step is to find the centre of the room by linking the mid-points of opposite walls with string lines.

▪ This was a smaller room, again with a door on the opposite wall.

way

▪ Not to mention the bumps and bruises on the centre's staff going the opposite way in a hurry.

▪ We encountered no one besides a farmer on a tractor going the opposite way, outside Cordova.

▪ Two rotors turning opposite ways can turn a ship on the spot.

▪ She glowered in our direction and then lit out the opposite way.

▪ And if the under-sheet is rotated the opposite way to the top one the patient need not even get out.

▪ Instead of the government spending its resources for defense, we must turn it the opposite way.

▪ On the other hand, the opposing approach used by social anthropologists and ethnographers fails as a solution in the opposite way.