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
- 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
- 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
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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
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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