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apposition
noun as in consistency
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in meeting
Example Sentences
They’ve cohered through wet-on-wet mixing into a strange, alienating hybrid color, made even stranger by the apposition of equally thick background strokes of soiled coral.
But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.
The united probe glows wherever two organelles come into close apposition.
In her analysis of the causes of repression in her society, Ms. Alexeyeva consistently disputed any neat apposition of Russian despots and Western democratic leaders.
With its unbalanced nouns in apposition, the film’s title hints at the absurdity of the way human beings think.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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