oppositely
相反地,对立的,对立面,相反的
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Definitions
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- : situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- : contrary or radically different in some respect common to both, as in nature, qualities, direction, result, or significance; opposed: opposite sides in a controversy; opposite directions.
- : being the other of two related or corresponding things: friendly with many members of the opposite sex.
- : Botany. situated on diametrically opposed sides of an axis, as leaves when there are two on one node.having one organ vertically above another; superimposed.
- : adverse or inimical.
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- : a person or thing that is opposite or contrary.
- : an antonym.
- : Archaic. an opponent; antagonist.
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- : across from; facing: The guest of honor sat opposite me at the banquet.
- : in a role parallel or complementary to: He has played opposite many leading ladies.
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- : on opposite sides.
- : on the opposite side: I was at one end and she sat opposite.
- : to the opposite side; in the opposite direction: I went to the left balcony, and he went opposite.
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Examples
She gets herself cast in the only woman’s part, opposite Martin, who flies out from England to play the male lead.
Einstein’s revolution, Pauli pointed out, merged space and time into a single entity—space-time—not opposites.
Repeat with the opposite arm and leg, keeping your hips and shoulders square.
“The dogma is completely opposite than what you would expect,” said Malik.
Rotating it by 120 or 240 degrees, or reflecting it across the line from each corner to the midpoint of the opposite side, or doing nothing, all leave the triangle looking the same as before.
After drying, the clay can be removed by brushing or by causing the beans to travel between oppositely reciprocated wet cloths.
Roughly speaking, therefore, cobalt behaves oppositely to iron.
Upon the back of the fixed plate are two sectors of tinfoil which become charged oppositely.
Passing on now hurriedly and blindly, he jostled against some oppositely-going wayfarer.
A harrow comprising two ranks of oppositely curved trailing teeth is especially popular in some countries.