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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjacency |
| Synonyms: | abutment, contact, nearness, proximity, touching |
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| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogizing, analogy, analyzing, association, balancing, bringing together, collating, collation, comparability, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, dividing, estimation, example, exemplification, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, likening, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, paralleling, ratio, relating, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing |
| Main Entry: | conjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, agreement, alliance, association, cahoots, coincidence, concomitance, concurrence, congruency, conjointment, hookup, juxtaposition, parallelism, partnership, tie-up, union |
| Notes: | a conjunction is a word that connects: a coordinating conjunction connects similar elements (you and I), while a correlative conjunction has related parts (either/or) |
| Antonyms: | detachment, disconnection, division, separation |
Example Sentences
- The drama of the juxtaposition was lost in the shuffle.
- And it's not just a juxtaposition of pattern but of time as well, combining the not-so-distant geologic past with the present.
- Subtle colored backgrounds harmonize the juxtaposition of black-and-white sketches and prints with color reproductions.
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touching |
| Synonyms: | approximation, closeness, collision, connection, contiguity, contingence, hit, impingement, junction, juxtaposition, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relation, strike, taction, touch, union |
| Antonyms: | avoidance |
| Main Entry: | meeting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convergence, intersection |
| Synonyms: | abutment, agreement, apposition, concourse, confluence, conjunction, connection, contact, crossing, joining, junction, juxtaposition, unification, union |
| Antonyms: | division, separation |
| Main Entry: | proximity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness to something |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, appropinquity, closeness, concurrence, contiguity, contiguousness, immediacy, juxtaposition, propinquity, togetherness |
| Antonyms: | distance, remoteness |
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| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
a-gatewards, affiliated, allied to, allusive, approximating, approximative, appurtenant to, associated, banded together, belonging to, bonded together, catenated, chainlike, cognate, commensal, comparable, confederated, connected, contubernial, correlative, dowelling, embattled, factional, federative, ginglymoid, implicated, in alliance, in common with, in league, in partnership, in relation with, in the same category, interlaced, joint, ligulate, like, linked together, obvolute, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable to, related, relating, relative, relative to, relevant
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