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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
opposing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a petition opposing sth
▪ 458 local people signed a petition opposing the move.
conflicting/opposing views (=completely different)
▪ There are conflicting views about the best way to teach reading.
rival/opposing/opposition fans (=fans who support different teams competing against each other)
▪ There were fights between rival fans outside the stadium.
the opposing team
▪ A member of the opposing team grabbed hold of his shirt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
faction
▪ It is the path a load would follow if it was pulled by the opposing factions in the drawing.
▪ The referendum campaign had been fiercely fought by opposing factions.
forces
▪ All of these qualities, when duly accounted for, amounted to a virtual condition of stalemate between the opposing forces.
party
▪ There are disagreements between councillors of the same party just as there are disagreements between those of opposing parties.
▪ The seventy members of the Sanhedrin were drawn mainly from two opposing parties, the Sadducees and the Pharisees.
▪ Of the opposing parties, a score of men lost their lives or were badly hurt on each side.
side
▪ But those who choose violence set themselves on the opposing side from democracy.
team
▪ Some of the opposing teams are dead good.
▪ Members of the opposing team pulled Newton back.
▪ This match was notable for being as much a battle against the elements as the opposing team.
▪ There must be a metre gap between players of opposing teams in the lineout.
view
▪ These opposing views should be brought together in a paragraph or essay.
▪ Lord Atkin, in one of the century's most powerful dissents, adopted the opposing view.
▪ Two quite directly opposing views on their policy significance prevail.
▪ The second and opposing view treats political events as the result of forces inherent in human nature.
▪ A number of analytical problems are raised by the rather stark polarization between these opposing views.
▪ There is an opposing view, that the marketing process should be seen in a rather different way.
▪ Is there any scientific evidence for either of these opposing views?
▪ Students taking an opposing view argued that it was the usage of the media that was evil and not the media themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a political group that split into two opposing factions
▪ Bobbie and Jo have opposing views on marriage.
▪ Brad was prepared to accept that opposing beliefs could be held equally strongly and passionately.
▪ Michigan's complex offense has kept opposing teams guessing.
▪ Russia and the U.S. have opposing views on arms sales to the region.
▪ The Party seems to be unsure which of two opposing political philosophies to follow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How can the opposing minority be both free and subject to laws to which they have not consented?
▪ It could be distinguished from an opposing process, which produces a non-material consciousness.
▪ John was also extremely fast and nimble, and he possessed a remarkable body-swerve which could prove most disconcerting to opposing defenders.
▪ The airport had been seized by one revolutionary force and the communication centre by an opposing one.
▪ The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
opposing

opposed \opposed\ ([o^]p*p[=o]zd"), opposing \opposing\ ([o^]p*p[=o]"z[i^]ng),adj.

  1. characterized by active opposition; as, two bitterly opposing schools of thought.

    Syn: antagonistic, antipathetic, antipathetical, opponent.

  2. acting in opposition to; as, the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

Wiktionary
opposing
  1. That opposes or oppose; on the opposite side. v

  2. (present participle of oppose English)

WordNet
opposing
  1. adj. characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies" [syn: opponent]

  2. acting in opposition to; "the opposing sector of the same muscle group"

  3. in opposition to (a policy or attitude etc.); "an opposing vote" [syn: opposed]

Usage examples of "opposing".

In the opposing picket line, men and women of ordinary appearance were in the majority, though there was a noticeable admixture of men in biknis, and women in codpieced, translucent business suits.

In the sphere of Society, opposing the chaos of atomism, feminism, disintegration of home and family, race-suicide, and universal decadence, arose the idea of race-ascendancy, fertility, the preservation and integration of society, the return to social health.

Andi watched Dao push her glass back and forth between opposing fingers.

When the opposing team laid down smashes at his feet, he saved them from dopping dead with backhand shots.

This resolution was read in a committee of ways and means on Monday, the 17th of February, after which Lord John Russel addressed the committee, factiously opposing the scheme of the premier, without offering any sound practical suggestion, or propounding any principle.

So what I am recommending, men, is that as part of your daily grooming ritual, you apply small globulets of Silly Putty to your face, as shown in the illustration, so as to render yourself irresistible to the opposing sex.

Present circumstances pictured to Gower the opposing weighed and matured good reason for his choosing Madge, and he complimented himself in his pity for the earl.

When he had finished his speech, two of us got hold of the woman to take her where our chief had arranged beforehand, and the others seized the three poor fellows, who were trembling all over, and had not the slightest idea of opposing any resistance.

So far, we have presented Leibniz as opposing the element of brute happenstance in Locke, in the name of a rational quasi-mathematical relation between mind and body.

Aryz, even with the limited perspective of a branch ind, was aware that, on the whole, the humans opposing the seedship were more adaptable, more vital.

Aryz, even with the limited perspective of a branch ind, was aware that, on the whole, the humans opposing the seed-ship were more adaptable, more vital.

If the cursing about you and your family done by Thyne here is any measure of Horn efficacy, I think I prefer having Ysanne Isard opposing me.

They looked for all the world like an actual jousting area with a barricade down the center, which was there so that two opposing knights could ride at each other on different sides of it, and so avoid the danger of their horses blundering together.

Wardani were taken by Hand and Sun Liping, so I crossed to the opposing side and dropped into the space next to Luc Deprez.

Pieces are there, like the way you count in octal instead of decimal, or the binary aspects of your world: two suns, two moons, two sets of opposing fingers.