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apposition

/ap-uh-zish-uhn/US // ˌæp əˈzɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌæpəˈzɪʃən) //

隶属关系,隶属,隶属度,隶属性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
    • : the addition or application of one thing to another thing.
    • : Grammar. a syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, that have the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence, the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the phrase our first president is in apposition with Washington.
    • : Biology. growth of a cell wall by the deposition of new particles in layers on the wall.Compare intussusception.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inconsistency

Examples

  • "The Alfar's Lament" is the early dawn, and is in apposition to "early morn," in the following line.

  • Moreover, the difference is not absolute; there are intermediary stages between apposition and intussusception.

  • The raw areas are brought into apposition with fine sutures.

  • He is thrown into too humbling an apposition with the author of Hamlet.

  • In apposition with some other nominative word, adding to the meaning of that word: "The reaper Death with his sickle keen."