Crossword clues for apposition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apposition \Ap`po*si"tion\, n. [L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite.]
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The act of adding; application; accretion.
It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.
--Arbuthnot. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
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(Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"application" (of one thing to another), mid-15c., originally in grammatical sense, from Latin appositionem (nominative appositio), noun of action from past participle stem of apponere "to put to" (see apposite). General sense is from 1540s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context grammar English) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explain equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence. 2 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 In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall. 6 (context rhetoric English) appositio
WordNet
n. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: juxtaposition, collocation]
Wikipedia
Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way. The two elements are said to be in apposition. One of the elements is called the appositive, although its identification requires consideration of how the elements are used in a sentence.
For example, in the two sentences below, the phrases Alice Smith and my sister are in apposition, with the appositive identified with italics:
- My sister, Alice Smith, likes jelly beans.
- Alice Smith, my sister, likes jelly beans.
Traditionally, appositions were called by their Latin name appositio, although the English form is now more commonly used. It is derived from Latin: ad ("near") and positio ("placement").
Apposition is a figure of speech of the scheme type, and often results when the verbs (particularly verbs of being) in supporting clauses are eliminated to produce shorter descriptive phrases. This makes them often function as hyperbatons, or figures of disorder, because they can disrupt the flow of a sentence. For example, in the phrase: "My wife, a nurse by training, ...", it is necessary to pause before the parenthetical modification "a nurse by training".
Apposition is the quality of being side-by-side or next to each other, such as in:
- Apposition, a grammatical construction in which two nouns are juxtaposed
- Thumb apposition
- Apposition eyes
- Bone apposition in fractures
Usage examples of "apposition".
In order to save the situation, two of the guilty party, Trelat and Michel of Bourges, took the responsibility of the drawing up of the manifesto and the apposition of the signatures upon themselves.
The broken ends of the fractured tibia were badly displaced and we had a struggle to bring them into apposition before applying the plaster of paris.
That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence.
That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence.
Side by side the currents would flow, twist, swirl, and merge: trange appositions, brisk contrasts, shocking transitions … This mental effect was similar.
These were some of the thoughts occupying Cunningham's mind - which was quite capable of holding several ideas in apposition - as he tilted back the swing-chair in his large and sumptuous office, put his feet on the desk and blew smoke-rings at the ceiling.