FromMiddle Englishapposicioun, fromMiddle Frenchapposition, fromLatinappositiō, past participle ofappōnere(“to putnear”).
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- my friend Alice
- The name “Alice” is inapposition to “my friend”. As a restrictiveappositive it typically takes no commas.
- My eldest sister, Hannah, is 35.
- The name “Hannah” is inapposition to “my eldest sister”. As a nonrestrictive appositive it takes commas.
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apposition (countable anduncountable,pluralappositions)
- (grammar) Aconstruction in which onenoun ornoun phrase is placed with another as anexplanatoryequivalent, both of them having the samesyntactic function in the sentence.
- Synonym:parathesis
2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, inInternational Journal of Lexicography, volume27, number 1, page65:Theapposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.
- (grammar) Therelationshipbetween such nouns or noun phrases.
- The quality of beingside by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- Aplacing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- (biology) Thegrowth ofsuccessivelayers of acellwall.
- (rhetoric)Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- Apublicdisputation byscholars.
- (UK) A (now purelyceremonial)speech day atSt Paul's School, London.
relationship in such construction
quality of being side by side
placing of two things side by side
biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall
apposition
- genitivesingular ofappositio
FromLatinappositiōnem.
apposition f (pluralappositions)
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