I. preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at one pole/at opposite poles
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We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other.
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Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles think in two completely different ways on this issue.
at the other/opposite extreme
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At the other extreme is a country like Switzerland with almost no unemployment.
exactly the opposite
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Kevin’s teachers saw him as quiet and serious, but with his friends he was exactly the opposite .
opposite ends of the spectrum
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The two articles here represent opposite ends of the spectrum .
the far/opposite corner of sth (= furthest from where you are )
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Something was moving in the far right corner of the garden.
the opposite conclusion
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A lot of scientific evidence supports the opposite conclusion.
the opposite direction
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The car crashed into a truck that was coming in the opposite direction.
the opposite sex (= people that were not his own sex )
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He found it difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex .
the opposite/facing page
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See the diagram on the opposite page.
the opposite/other end (of sth)
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Jon and his girlfriend were sitting at the opposite end of the bar.
the other/opposite side
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On the other side of the river are some low hills.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
diametrically opposed/opposite
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The women hold diametrically opposed views on abortion.
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A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life.
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Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.
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In essence, the founding giants of the computer industry were diametrically opposed in both platform and product.
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It is clear that Guthrie and Linforth follow diametrically opposed methods and reach contradictory conclusions about the nature and existence of Orphism.
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Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.
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The assumptions in the two systems are almost diametrically opposed.
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Therefore, introspection and self-observation are diametrically opposed in action and effect, and should never be confused one with another.
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To begin with, he was diametrically opposed to the economic ideas advocated by Adam Smith.
polar opposite/extreme
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CertainIV it should not accommodate its polar opposite.
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Eikmeyer's fundamental insight is that co-operation and non-co-operation are not simply polar opposites along a scale.
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However, the life-cycle savings model is the polar opposite case from pure classical savings.
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In fact the two strains-puritanism and pentecostalism-seem in some way to be nearly polar opposites.
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No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.
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Strickland was their polar opposite -- an irresponsible teammate and anti-leader.
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The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.
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When you bring together two polar opposites, the classless one will always drag the other one down.
the exact opposite (of sb/sth)
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At 80, you are the exact opposite.
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Gloraida Malave, for example, was the exact opposite of Mones or Abukar.
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He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.
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I said, which was about the exact opposite of what I really thought.
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Indeed, when it comes to the relative growth rates of imports and exports, the exact opposite is true.
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It is the exact opposite of the truth.
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John Major, he said, had the exact opposite of the Midas touch.
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This may not always be so - indeed, the exact opposite may be the case.
the other/opposite side of the coin
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Put the piano opposite the sofa.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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It now appears that in other species the same habit can have an almost opposite function.
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They were hit by joyriders almost opposite Springfield Primary school where Mrs Tully's four-year-old daughter was a new-start pupil.
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The prevalent and dominant winds may blow from the same direction or they may blow from almost opposite directions.
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Cathy was almost opposite Alan Tate and he was, watching her, or seemed to be.
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By fortunate chance, he was Karelius' right-hand neighbour, Fräulein Müller sitting almost opposite .
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Twenty four hour car park almost opposite the halls. 12.
diametrically
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Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.
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Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.
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Thus the same metaphor can lead to diametrically opposite understandings.
directly
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If you sit directly opposite an opponent, the sense of conflict may be heightened.
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He had recently bought a huge house there with a garden which bordered on the river, directly opposite Botolph's Wharf.
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The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church, so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself.
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Some Enterprise rooms are in the annexe directly opposite the main building.
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Half-way through their round trips, they are both directly opposite their starting point.
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In the same road was the school of journalism. Directly opposite , lay the National Theatre.
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Campbell set the matter in the directly opposite light.
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On the hospital side it opened into the basement under the Out Patients Department, which itself stood directly opposite our dining-room.
exactly
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But by 1860 the proportion was almost exactly opposite: 33.96 percent of receipts came from passengers and 66.04 percent from goods.
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Consider some firmly held, exactly opposite , positions on how easy the other guy has it.
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This is exactly opposite to most other museum's great Rembrandt holdings: the Metropolitan's Rembrandts are nearly all portraits.
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It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster's.
very
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The third reason for supporting live worship is the very opposite .
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Despite pressures for differentiation, the result was the very opposite of separation.
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The very opposite considerations lead to the success of businesses where intense customer contact is the basis of commerce.
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It's the very opposite of drawing.
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The very opposite is the truth.
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Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
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In fact the very opposite was true.
■ NOUN
bank
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Go through gate on to sunken road and over stile on opposite bank .
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I know that Ian Heaps was on that match, drawn on the opposite bank .
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On the opposite bank , Luke rolled off her back and lay on the grass.
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Two anglers on opposite banks were casting three-quarters of the way across.
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Another man was fishing from the opposite bank .
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I have seen foxes playing in the brambles, and once a red deer walked past on the opposite bank .
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The opposite bank showed dim as a cloud, two miles away or more.
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She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood.
conclusion
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Investigators who have reviewed the research have come to quite opposite conclusions .
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So two theories-truth in advertising and dishonest manipulation-seem to come to opposite conclusions .
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Constitutional theory would indicate the opposite conclusion .
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The two district courts that addressed this question reached opposite conclusions .
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Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner, but they led him to an opposite conclusion .
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A test of rightness would indicate the opposite conclusion .
corner
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On the opposite corner a dusty station wagon idled noisily at the red light.
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If a tear develops, peel from the opposite corner and work towards the damage.
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Both were poor shepherds of Aquitaine, though from opposite corners of the province.
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Over on the opposite corner , the Guardian Angels staged a counter demonstration.
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In the opposite corner was a portly man in a baggy tweed suit.
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Almost on the opposite corner to the chapel stood Donegal Castle, its gateway locked, for the ruins were unsafe.
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Inside were two cockerels in opposite corners , sore, bald things with a vestige of feathers.
direction
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Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass.
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The Civil Service Commission needs to be independent of the Council and this proposal would go in the opposite direction .
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Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction .
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Coming in the opposite direction ahead are three cars, then four.
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For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly.
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The evidence points in exactly the opposite direction .
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Their job then was to relay tradition from above to below, and congregants' requests in the opposite direction .
effect
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Crash dieting and yo-yo dieting, on the other hand, will have the opposite effect .
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The likelihood that one will never own an automobile can not fail to have the opposite effect .
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In fact, their campaign and the probably well-founded suspicion that the result had been rigged had the opposite effect .
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Where we followed his lead-particularly in low-income housing-we often had the opposite effect , crippling community-based organizations.
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Indeed, some of its recommendations will have the opposite effect .
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The Wall we hoped would insure our independence seems to be having an opposite effect .
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This was precisely the opposite effect to that of green.
end
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At one point, one of the girls was at one end of the classroom and the other at the opposite end.
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Place both bags on a table with the straws extending from opposite ends .
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As before, any shaping must be conducted at the opposite end of the knitting to the carriage.
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One way to look at Cleveland is to say it is at opposite ends of the political spectrum with San Francisco.
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The door was at the opposite end of the kitchen from where the telly was.
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Run it into two uplifts at opposite ends of the tank, and pack it with filter floss and carbon.
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Paradoxically, the other key to global food security lies at the opposite end of the technology scale.
extreme
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At the opposite extreme of a pulse of extremely long duration, the Fourier spectrum only contains extremely low frequencies.
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Alfonsina Storni seems to have veered as far as possible to the opposite extreme .
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At the opposite extreme , paupers' graves had long been unmarked; but in between, death had been the metaphorical leveller.
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The opposite extreme is to find one individual and share all the duties of parenthood equally, as albatrosses do.
number
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So does his opposite number in the Senate, Bennett Johnston of Louisiana.
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Suppose it simply killed off its opposite number , the one that came from the other grandparent of the embryo.
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Each of the 23 pairs of chromosomes is laid alongside its opposite number .
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Finding an opposite number is not always easy.
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Aki Hill is there, her opposite number at rival school Oregon State.
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My opposite numbers , you understand.
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His opposite number , Clive Lloyd, had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy.
numbers
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My opposite numbers , you understand.
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Their opposite numbers in the spending departments are the principal finance officers.
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He quickly made contact with all the leading sewerage companies, their advisers as well as his opposite numbers throughout the county.
page
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The drawing on the opposite page shows a mains stopcock with a draincock fitted above.
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As shown in the figure on the opposite page , these new elements represent the results that each technique tends to yield.
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Chanel, on the opposite page , was three months old.
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Write each one down on a table like the one on the opposite page .
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A typical ideal personnel specification might look like the table on the opposite page .
pole
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Besides, he was funny and youthful, the opposite pole to Matthew Blake.
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This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.
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Each pair in fact began to gravitate to opposite poles within the horizon which Dialectical Theology had opened up.
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They were at an opposite pole from the self-important, vacuous management.
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We were at the opposite poles of humanity.
sex
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Many siblings quarrel and fight particularly if they are of opposite sexes .
shore
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On the opposite shore I saw two large gray black shapes: moose!
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Once this fall was likened to a gigantic weir, its crest a straight line between Goat Island and the opposite shore .
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He reached the opposite shore and then returned in a blaze of fireworks.
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The sun has come to a standstill, hours above the river and the opposite shore .
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Wind whipping across sandbar on opposite shore , sand blowing across water.
side
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Then he began to move slowly and carefully past the table, on the opposite side to Moore.
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Primo waves his hand at his own reflection and that of the empty seat on the opposite side of the aisle.
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Instead, the former World Champion lunged at a white bishop on the opposite side of the board.
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You and your ex-wife live on opposite sides of the country.
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There is nothing inherently improbable about the same company producing both and selling them to opposite sides in a war.
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Even heavy trucks and buses are prohibited; they are confined to the Shenandoah Valley on the opposite side of the mountains.
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Two cars went down the street on the opposite side; on Quinn's side a motor-cyclist was approaching.
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They could only be opposite sides of a single coin.
sign
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The New Moon in your opposite sign of Sagittarius highlights a special relationship and a piece of news.
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Therefore K 1 and K 2 have opposite signs and the Gaussian curvature K is negative.
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At the outer edge of the wake, on the other hand, the advection term has the opposite sign .
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The equation for the energy of the mean flow contains a corresponding term of opposite sign .
view
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On the contrary, the opposite view is intellectually more compelling.
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Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Democratic party chairman, took the opposite view .
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The opposite view is referred to briefly in passing in the Council report.
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Republican Mountjoy takes the opposite view .
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The universities had taken the opposite view .
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Of course my new conservative acquaintances take the opposite view , sort of.
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I have the opposite view of money.
wall
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We had to edge sideways along with our arms outstretched against the opposite wall for support.
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Deep shelves on the opposite wall contained boxes of tinned food and crates of spirits.
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On the opposite wall , photographer Christopher Burkett plumbs the brilliant unnatural colors of the natural world.
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On the opposite wall , a print was mounted; an austere graphic design, white and grey to match.
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I stared at the opposite wall .
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The first step is to find the centre of the room by linking the mid-points of opposite walls with string lines.
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This was a smaller room, again with a door on the opposite wall .
way
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Not to mention the bumps and bruises on the centre's staff going the opposite way in a hurry.
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We encountered no one besides a farmer on a tractor going the opposite way , outside Cordova.
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Two rotors turning opposite ways can turn a ship on the spot.
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She glowered in our direction and then lit out the opposite way .
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And if the under-sheet is rotated the opposite way to the top one the patient need not even get out.
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Instead of the government spending its resources for defense, we must turn it the opposite way .
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On the other hand, the opposing approach used by social anthropologists and ethnographers fails as a solution in the opposite way .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
diametrically opposed/opposite
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The women hold diametrically opposed views on abortion.
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A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life.
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Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.
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In essence, the founding giants of the computer industry were diametrically opposed in both platform and product.
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It is clear that Guthrie and Linforth follow diametrically opposed methods and reach contradictory conclusions about the nature and existence of Orphism.
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Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.
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The assumptions in the two systems are almost diametrically opposed.
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Therefore, introspection and self-observation are diametrically opposed in action and effect, and should never be confused one with another.
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To begin with, he was diametrically opposed to the economic ideas advocated by Adam Smith.
the other/opposite side of the coin
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During the summer there wasn't enough rain, but now we have the opposite problem.
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Getting angry with him didn't work, so I tried the opposite approach.
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It is strange how two scientists studying the same problem can come to completely opposite conclusions.
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Margaret has very strong opinions, but she always tries to understand the opposite point of view.
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Raising interest rates to slow the economy may have the opposite effect.
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The medicine was supposed to make him sleepy, but it had the opposite effect.
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two words with opposite meanings
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We're good friends, but we have opposite views when it comes to politics.
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We have opposite viewpoints on almost everything.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As shown in the figure on the opposite page, these new elements represent the results that each technique tends to yield.
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He saw the propeller contact something and then appear to rotate in the opposite direction as the engine stopped.
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McFarlane, who had no exact counterpart on the opposite side, stood with Nitze and Max Kampelman.
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My opposite numbers, you understand.
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The sun has come to a standstill, hours above the river and the opposite shore.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
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In fact, it's just about the complete opposite of the way that I do things.
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The return of the deep meant the complete opposite of all that.
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Interestingly, parents find this particularly hard as it is often the complete opposite of what they normally do.
exact
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John Major, he said, had the exact opposite of the Midas touch.
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Gloraida Malave, for example, was the exact opposite of Mones or Abukar.
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This may not always be so - indeed, the exact opposite may be the case.
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By temperament, Straus was an exact opposite of the slide-rule engineers who had guided the Bureau during its forty-odd years.
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It is the exact opposite of the truth.
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I said, which was about the exact opposite of what I really thought.
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He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.
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Its exact opposite said that none of this meant anything at all.
polar
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Eikmeyer's fundamental insight is that co-operation and non-co-operation are not simply polar opposites along a scale.
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CertainIV it should not accommodate its polar opposite .
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The polar opposite images are not by some marketing design.
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Strickland was their polar opposite -- an irresponsible teammate and anti-leader.
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In this respect he is the polar opposite of Harold Wilson, a dull speaker who taught himself to be funny.
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In fact the two strains-puritanism and pentecostalism-seem in some way to be nearly polar opposites .
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First of all, is it sensible to think of masculine/feminine as polar opposites ?
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When you bring together two polar opposites , the classless one will always drag the other one down.
precise
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Of course it turned out the precise opposite .
■ NOUN
number
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How come time speeds up and slows down all at once? 17.47 Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry.
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Their opposite numbers favored an attitude that fostered any means by which the aesthetic character of the photographic print might be enhanced.
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He was a threat to the very job of his expatriate opposite number .
■ VERB
do
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I suggest it would do precisely the opposite .
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Well, I want to do the opposite .
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My inclinations, even then, were to do the opposite of what others told me I should do.
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First, when all investors were doing the same thing, he would actively seek to do the opposite .
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Knowing more about her pregnancy should have empowered her, but in fact it did the opposite .
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For example, hope lies somewhere between blind trust and suspicion, but so does its opposite , despair.
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I will do the opposite , if it's all right by you-and always be glad you came.
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But you did just the opposite .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The two sisters are complete opposites.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All postures are mocked by their opposites.
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Charles Nagy was the opposite , seemingly ready to be assisted out of Camden Yards a half-dozen times.
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Claire Chennault was the temperamental opposite of Stilwell.
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Gloraida Malave, for example, was the exact opposite of Mones or Abukar.
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In Britain we have the opposite .
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Indeed, on a scientific level, the opposite seems to be happening.
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This may not always be so - indeed, the exact opposite may be the case.
IV. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
sit
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General Vashinov sat opposite him, to his left and half way up the table.
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Charlotte sat opposite me on the sofa, like a little child with a serious, thoughtful face.
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She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed.
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Damian sat opposite her, and every glance at his tough face only underlined her rash promise to her.
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He dressed quickly in faded denim jeans and a black T-shirt and sat opposite her at the little mahogany table.
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She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses.
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I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me.
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You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables.
sitting
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She looked at the man sitting opposite her, and was suffused with a sense of loss.
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If he went against this young man sitting opposite him, he would in effect dig his own grave.
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He looked at Michael Ryan sitting opposite him.
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I was fascinated by the woman sitting opposite me: Francesca Clinton, Sir Robert's wife.
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How could he explain to the old woman sitting opposite him that he wore a five thousand pound watch?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My cousin was sitting opposite .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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General Vashinov sat opposite him, to his left and half way up the table.
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How could he explain to the old woman sitting opposite him that he wore a five thousand pound watch?
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It benefits from a lovely site, opposite the parish church and close to farm buildings, away from the village centre.
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Nell, unsure of the worth of his compliment, nevertheless sat down opposite him, even if temporarily.
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Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication.
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She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed.
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Uncle Albert pointed sternly to the chair opposite him.