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obverse

/noun ob-vurs; adjective ob-vurs, ob-vurs/US // noun ˈɒb vɜrs; adjective ɒbˈvɜrs, ˈɒb vɜrs //UK // (ˈɒbvɜːs) //

正面,正面的,正面的例子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the side of a coin, medal, flag, etc., that bears the principal design.
    • : the front or principal surface of anything.
    • : a counterpart.
    • : Logic. a proposition obtained from another by obversion.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : facing the observer.
    • : corresponding to something else as a counterpart.
    • : having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The old Kaiser Franz Joseph, faithful and hardworking, was the obverse of the feckless and impetuous German kaiser.

  • As for the obverse, my liberal allies, this explains why information that seems so obvious to us never gets through.

  • The obverse statement is nearly always followed by a repetition of what the thing is.

  • A fourth method of building up a paragraph from a topic-sentence consists in telling what it is not; that is, giving the obverse.

  • On the reverse I made out a coat of arms, almost obliterated; but the obverse was clearer.

  • O good French language, cunning and good, that lets me read the sentence in obverse or converse as I will!

  • The obverse side of the law of increasing returns is also of great importance.