Look up: apposition

1. Apposition
   Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to define or modify the other. When this device is used, the two elements are said to be in apposition. For example, in the phrase "my friend Alice", the name "Alice" is in apposition to "my friend". Tradit...
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2. apposition
   [n] - a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows 2. [n] - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
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3. Apposition
   the laying down of, or addition of.
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4. Apposition
   Apposition: The word 'apposition' has several senses including the act of adding or accretion and also the putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side. Growth by apposition is a mode of growth that is characteristic of many tissues in the body by which nutritive matter from the blood is tran...
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5. apposition
   term used when paratactically joined forms are grammatically,but not in meaning equivalent e.g.John(,)the poor boy Category: Language and literature
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6. Apposition
   Ap`po·si'tion noun [ Latin appositio , from apponere : confer French apposition . See Apposite .] 1. The act of adding; application; accretion. « It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arb...
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7. apposition
   1. The act of adding; application; accretion. 'It grows . . . By the apposition of new matter.' (Arbuthnot) ... 2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed. ... 3. The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting wo...
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8. apposition
   noun (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
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9. apposition
   noun a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; ``Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer` is an example of apposition`
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10. apposition
    (ap″ә-zish´әn) the placement of adjacent structures or parts so that they can come into contact; called also juxtaposition.
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11. Apposition
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being ...
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12. apposition
    apposition 1. The relative position of two things that are next to each other. 2. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other. 3. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things. 4. A grammar rela...
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13. Apposition
    In grammar, an apposition is the relation in which one or more nouns or substantive phrases or clauses stand to a noun or pronoun, which they explain or characterize without being predicated of it, and with which they agree in case; as Cicero, the orator, lived in the first century before Christ; th...
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14. apposition
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ap′ō-zish′ŭn Definitions: 1. The placing in contact of two substances or structures. 2. The condition of being placed or fitted together. 3. The relationship of fracture fragments to one another. 4. The process of thickening of the cell wall. Synonyms: appositional growth
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15. apposition
    In grammar, the placing of a noun or noun phrase next to another that refers to the same thing (`We'll take the easiest route, the east ridge, to the top`). The word or phrase in apposition is marked off from its antecedent (to which it refers) by a pair of commas
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16. apposition
    Latin appositus = placed at, hence, in contact, in juxtaposition.
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