APPOSITION
\ɐpəzˈɪʃən], \ɐpəzˈɪʃən], \ɐ_p_ə_z_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of APPOSITION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
By Princeton University
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a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of placing side by side; the setting of a word or phrase beside another without a connective, by way of explanation.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The act of adding: state of being placed together or against: (gram.) the annexing of one noun to another, in the same case or relation, in order to explain or limit the first.
By Daniel Lyons
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The act of placing together or against; state of being so placed; the placing two nouns referring to the same subject, in the same case.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The relation between nouns in the same subject or predicate and in the same case.
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A placing or being in immediate connection; application.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of adding to; addition; the placing of a noun in the same case with another which it attributively explains and defines.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of adding to; in gram., two nouns following each other in the same case, the latter explanatory of the former, or modifying it in some way.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The bringing of the lips of a wound or of the fragments of a broken bone into their proper relations.
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The contact of two surfaces. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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