Associations to the word «Apposition»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
APPOSITION, noun. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
APPOSITION, noun. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
APPOSITION, noun. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
APPOSITION, noun. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
APPOSITION, noun. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
APPOSITION, noun. (rhetoric) Appositio
Dictionary definition
APPOSITION, noun. A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition".
APPOSITION, noun. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material.
APPOSITION, noun. The act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors".
Wise words
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is
the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color
and content according to the circumstances and time in which
it is used.