Apposition
31apposition — ap|po|si|tion [ ,æpə zıʃn ] noun uncount LINGUISTICS the relationship between two noun phrases that are used in the same way and refer to the same person or thing. For example in My best friend, Jane, likes swimming. , my best friend and Jane are …
32apposition — [[t]æ̱pəzɪ̱ʃ(ə)n[/t]] N UNCOUNT: usu in N If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago …
33apposition — noun (U) an arrangement in grammar in which one simple sentence contains two or more noun phrases that are used in the same way and describe the same thing. For example, in the sentence The defendant, a woman of thirty, denies kicking the… …
34apposition — n. the state of two structures, such as parts of the body, being in close contact. For example, the fingers are brought into apposition when the fist is clenched, and the eyelids when the eyes are closed …
35apposition — UK [ˌæpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [uncountable] linguistics the relationship between two noun phrases that are used in the same way and refer to the same person or thing. For example in My best friend, Jane, likes swimming , my best friend and Jane are …
36apposition — /æpəˈzɪʃən / (say apuh zishuhn) noun 1. the act of adding to or together; a placing together; juxtaposition. 2. Grammar a syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, which have the same function and the same relation to other… …
37apposition — n. 1 placing side by side; juxtaposition. 2 Gram. the placing of a word next to another, esp. the addition of one noun to another, in order to qualify or explain the first (e.g. William the Conqueror; my friend Sue). Derivatives: appositional adj …
38Appositiōn, die — Die Appositiōn, plur. die en, aus dem Lat. Appositio, in der Sprachlehre, die Nebeneinanderstellung zweyer Substantive in einerley Endung; z.B. seine Mutter Susanna …
39apposition — noun Date: 15th century 1. a. a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Bur …
40apposition — См. aposizione …
