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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
imposing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an impressive/imposing building
▪ the impressive buildings around the town’s central square
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
▪ Food chain Tescos is thought to be interested in taking over the imposing building.
▪ She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time.
▪ However, another whisky warehouse went up, illuminating beautifully the imposing building that is Donaldson's.
▪ By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings.
▪ These imposing buildings from another era were the meeting point for elements that the establishment wanted to keep apart.
▪ The manor house is Alford's most imposing building.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An imposing staircase led out of the hall.
▪ It's one of the most distinguished hotels in Italy, grand and imposing.
▪ The show took place outside the imposing Central Library building on Fifth Avenue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A major problem with imposing restrictions of this kind is that banks may find ways of getting round them.
▪ Over six feet tall, and square-shouldered, Marcus Judge was still an imposing character.
▪ Pergamon was an imposing hillside city and full advantage was taken of this dramatic site.
▪ She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.
▪ The fingerboard is rosewood with the somewhat imposing lightning bolt inlays which share the blue livery chosen for this particular model.
▪ The railway crossing was protected by imposing level crossing gates where it crossed the tram line.
▪ The site is distinguished by an imposing pair of gates, there is the station building itself and the mill.
▪ With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposing portals of Mon Ré, and rang the bell.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imposing

Impose \Im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Imposing.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]

  1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

    Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket.
    --Chapman.

  2. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.

    What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
    --Shak.

    Death is the penalty imposed.
    --Milton.

    Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws.
    --Waller.

  3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

  4. (Print.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

Imposing

Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, a.

  1. Laying as a duty; enjoining.

  2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. ``Large and imposing edifices.''
    --Bp. Hobart.

  3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

Imposing

Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, n. (Print.) The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.

Imposing stone (Print.), the stone on which the pages or columns of types are imposed or made into forms; -- called also imposing table.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
imposing

"that impresses by appearance or manner," 1786, from present participle of impose (v.). Related: Imposingly.

Wiktionary
imposing
  1. Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity. v

  2. (present participle of impose English)

WordNet
imposing
  1. adj. impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: baronial, noble, stately]

  2. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty" [syn: distinguished, magisterial]

Wikipedia
Imposing

Imposing was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse.

He was a chestnut son of Todman from the Arctic Explorer mare Hialeah.

Some of his major race victories included the 1979 AJC Epsom Handicap, AJC George Main Stakes and the STC Hill Stakes.

Retired to stud following his successful racing career, his progeny included the champion Super Impose, Imposera (1988 MRC Caulfield Cup) and Imprimatur (1986 AJC Spring Champion Stakes).

Category:1975 racehorse births Category:Thoroughbred racehorses Category:Australian racehorses Category:Racehorses bred in Australia Category:Thoroughbred family 1-c

Usage examples of "imposing".

Donhauser, imposing in her elegant yet practical satin jumpsuit, was the Anabaptist envoy to our Hope Nation colony.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black there he is!

Medium height, thick build which might show overweight but for the superb cut of his uniform, Beaumont made an imposing figure.

Towering over the seated Staff, he was an imposing figure in his bemedalled dress uniform, and his voice was imperious.

Indeed, Gragg was physically taller and more imposing than Burkitt, with wide shoulders and a blocky head that seemed to fit seamlessly onto his shoulders without benefit of neck.

The church steeple and the Chilian flag gleamed for an instant among the trees, and then the strait wound on between huge granitic masses which had an imposing effect.

Stone Dances on their way, and on the third day they came in the evening to a village that rested some five hundred paces away from the largest and most imposing of the Stone Dances they had yet encountered.

The mountains--the Bavarian Alps, from what Dominick had told her--filled the horizon with their imposing mass.

Soon after arriving at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld met with General Hugh Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former Special Operations Forces commander and an imposing physical presence.

Small cherry wood tables, a pair of fruitwood tub chairs cushioned in brown, an imposing secretary in Russian birch, a black and white Portuguese needlepoint rug, recessed lighting, bunches of fluffy white chrysanthemums, and an assemblage of both modern and ancient statuary created a portrait of a man appreciative of the past, but not so overawed as to dismiss the accomplishments of the present.

A little glamourie to let it look important and imposing, but not too important or imposing, of course.

I expected someone imposing, as if all his wealth and power would be manifest in a physical form sculpted from bronze, but Hannover turned out to be amazingly ordinary: short and paunchy with a receding hairline, skin the color of a mushroom, wispy fine hair, eyes glazed into a dull stare.

A gargantuan holoportrait of him hanging in the vast echoing front court stared down at Leyytey as she was shown through the imposing polished heartwood double doors.

But the Judaizing party bore a heavy preponderance in the early Church, and has succeeded unto this day in imposing on ecclesiastical Christendom its own test: namely, a sound dogmatic, belief in the supreme personal rank and office of Christ, as the only means of admission to the kingdom of heaven.