apposition
- noun
- /ˌæpəˈzɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
aposición
- The rubberized exterior, while being strong enough to retain the articulated bones in their respective apposition, is elastic enough to allow their movement when the foot is loaded and to restore them to a neutral position when unloaded.
Examples
-
It often advances and does not advance through a series of phrases in apposition.
Blog text (10) -
But even were the inversion corrected, the apposition would remain, and with it the subject-verb hiatus.
Academic text (2005) -
"Here" character is set in apposition to "quality," which, at that time, referred to social rank.
Academic text (2013) -
She focused on the Rules of Apposition.
Fiction book (1995) -
Therefore, the readings of ii and iv, where the last line is in apposition to "a Purple Tar," are constrained to those readings which allow only the tar to refer to the sun.
Academic text (2006) -
Will the tire-cord reinforced rubber shell adequately retain the articulated ankle-foot bones in their respective appositions?
Academic text (1990) -
The grammatical subject "I" is separated from its verb "sing" by a two-line apposition ("chanter, them") and by the inversion of verb and direct object ("A reminiscence").
Academic text (2005) -
"The pertinent terms, which I have italicized, are the subject "Karshish" in line 1, its reappearance as an apposition, "The vagrant Scholar," in line 15, and the verb for Karshish, which is "sends" in line 16.
Academic text (2005) -
In the sentence "My brother, an accomplished musician, plays guitar," the phrase "an accomplished musician" is in apposition to "my brother."
-
In English, the phrase "the capital of France, Paris," shows the use of apposition as it defines the first noun phrase.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Apposition comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and ponere 'to place', and it shares the same root as position 'place'. So in grammar apposition is literally putting one noun next to another so the second one explains or names the first.