JUXTAPOSE


Meaning of JUXTAPOSE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒʌkstəpoʊz ]

( juxtaposes, juxtaposing, juxtaposed)

If you juxtapose two contrasting objects, images, or ideas, you place them together or describe them together, so that the differences between them are emphasized. ( FORMAL )

The technique Mr Wilson uses most often is to juxtapose things for dramatic effect...

Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.

...art’s oldest theme: the celebration of life juxtaposed with the terror of mortality.

VERB : V pl-n , be V-ed with n , V-ed , also V n with n

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