📖 O — The English dictionary · page 11

opium — Everyday, meaning 1: A strong, illegal drug made from the juice of a kind of poppy, which makes people sleepy and is very addictive and dangerous.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Medicines made from it, like morphine, are used by doctors to stop very bad pain.↗ Example: Opium comes from the seed pods of a kind of poppy.↗ · Opium is a dangerous and addictive drug.↗ · Britain and China fought the Opium Wars over the opium trade.↗ · Doctors use medicines made from opium to stop terrible pain.↗ · Never take medicine that wasn't given to you by a trusted adult or doctor.↗ · Addiction to opium ruined many lives in history.↗ · A wild joviality seemed to rush through the Dryad, as though she were intoxicated with opium.↗

opossum — Everyday, meaning 1: An opossum is a North and South American marsupial about the size of a cat, with a pointed white face, bare ears and a long, bare tail that can grip branches.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In Australia and New Zealand, «possum» is a different marsupial: a furry tree animal like the brushtail possum.↗ Example: The opossum hung from the branch by its tail.↗ · A mother opossum carried her babies on her back.↗ · The opossum played dead when the dog sniffed it.↗ · «Playing possum» means pretending to be asleep or dead.↗ · Opossums are the only marsupials in North America.↗ · In Australia, a brushtail possum lived in our roof!↗

opponent — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or team that you play, compete or fight against.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who disagrees with an idea or plan and argues against it.↗ Example: Shake hands with your opponent after the match.↗ · My opponent in the chess game was very clever.↗ · The boxer knocked his opponent down.↗ · Our team's opponents wore red shirts.↗ · Respect your opponent, even if you lose.↗ · Opponents of the plan wrote letters to the newspaper.↗ · She beat every opponent in the tournament.↗ · He soon proved that he was no unworthy pupil of Eurytus, for he signally defeated all his opponents.↗

opportunity — Everyday, meaning 1: An opportunity is a time or situation when it is possible to do something you want or need to do; a chance.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An opportunity can be a chance for a job or for a better life.↗ Example: The trip was a great opportunity to see the mountains.↗ · I took the opportunity to ask the author a question.↗ · Don't miss this opportunity to join the choir.↗ · Moving to the city gave her more job opportunities.↗ · It was a golden opportunity to score, but he missed.↗ · Every pupil should have equal opportunities.↗ · Given the opportunity, I'd love to visit Australia.↗ · At last, one morning her opportunity came.↗

opposable — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to be placed opposite and pressed against the other fingers, like a human thumb, so that the hand can grip and pick things up.↗ Example: Humans have opposable thumbs, so we can hold a pencil.↗ · Try picking up a coin without using your opposable thumb.↗ · Chimpanzees have opposable thumbs and big toes.↗ · Opposable thumbs helped early humans to make tools.↗ · Koalas have two opposable digits for gripping branches.↗ · Pandas have a special bone that works like an opposable thumb.↗

oppose — Everyday, meaning 1: To oppose something is to be against it and try to stop it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To oppose someone is to fight or compete against them, as in a game or election.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To set two things against each other to compare them.↗ Example: Many parents oppose the plan to close the library.↗ · The two teams will oppose each other in the final.↗ · She opposed the idea of a longer school day.↗ · The villagers opposed building a road through the woods.↗ · Who will oppose the champion?↗ · I like dogs, as opposed to cats.↗ · Our opposing team wore red shirts.↗ · The council opposes the new rule.↗ · “Your constancy has overcome me,” she said; “I can no longer oppose your wishes.↗

opposed — Everyday, meaning 1: If you are opposed to something, you are against it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Opposed things are very different or opposite to each other.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Opposed is the past form of oppose: «They opposed the plan».↗ Example: I am opposed to cutting down the old oak.↗ · My parents are opposed to me having a phone yet.↗ · The two brothers held opposed views.↗ · The class opposed the change to the timetable.↗ · We walked, as opposed to taking the bus.↗ · She was strongly opposed to the idea.↗ · Their opinions are completely opposed.↗ · Most people opposed the new car park.↗ · Their landing, however, was opposed by a terrible giant who guarded the island against all intruders.↗ · These are double, because their opposites take part in life, opposed to Life is Death; to Peace, War; to Riches, Poverty; to Beauty or Reputation, Deformity or Disrepute; to Wisdom, Ignorance; to Fruitfulness, Sterility; to Power, Slavery.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

opposing — Everyday, meaning 1: Being against someone or something in a game, fight or argument (the opposing team).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very different or opposite (opposing views).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb form) Being against a plan or idea (they are opposing the new road).↗ Example: We beat the opposing team three to one.↗ · The two friends had opposing views on pets.↗ · Opposing forces of equal size cancel out.↗ · Many people are opposing the plan to close the library.↗ · Shake hands with the opposing players.↗ · In the debate, each opposing side spoke for five minutes.↗ · Another property he had; his lance would produce a wound equal to those of nine opposing lances.↗ · The numeral one 1 and the zero 0 are a fitting symbolization of the two opposing principles concerning which the Sefer Yetzirah iv> "23) says as follows: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

opposite — Everyday, meaning 1: The opposite is the thing that is as different as can be: up is the opposite of down.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Opposite also means facing, on the other side: the shop opposite the school.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In shapes, opposite sides or angles are across from each other.↗ Example: Opposite sides of a rectangle are equal.↗ · Subtraction is the opposite of addition.↗ · The shop is opposite the school.↗ · The opposite side is 8 cm long.↗ · Hot is the opposite of cold.↗ · Opposite poles of a magnet pull together.↗ · She sat opposite me at lunch.↗ · The twins like opposite things.↗ · Multiplication and division are opposite operations.↗ · ‘It is just the opposite of you!↗ · Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to another.↗ (Torah EXO.36.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one to another.↗ (Torah EXO.26.5, JPS 1917)↗ · He means to say, that the letters of the words ענג and נגע are the same, but they signify nevertheless, opposite ideas on account of transposition.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

opposition — Everyday, meaning 1: Opposition is strong disagreement with a plan or idea, often shown by speaking or acting against it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The opposition is the team or player you are playing against.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (politics) The Opposition is the parties in parliament that are not in the government, especially the biggest one, which questions and challenges the government.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Opposition is being opposite or against something («in opposition to»).↗ Example: There was strong opposition to closing the library.↗ · The opposition scored in the last minute.↗ · The Leader of the Opposition asked the Prime Minister a question.↗ · Parents voiced their opposition to the new uniform.↗ · The Opposition voted against the law.↗ · Our team beat the opposition easily.↗ · She spoke in opposition to the plan.↗ · Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition.↗ · And our God made the states of opposition, good and evil, good from the good, and evil from the evil.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

oppress — Everyday, meaning 1: To oppress people is to treat them cruelly and unfairly, keeping them under hard control.↗ Example: The wicked king oppressed the poor villagers.↗ · No one should oppress another person.↗ · The people rose up against the soldiers who oppressed them.↗ · And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah EXO.22.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah EXO.23.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.↗ (Torah EXO.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · From the wicked that oppress, my deadly enemies, that compass me about.↗ (Writings PSA.17.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!↗ (Prophets ZEP.3.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Be surety for Thy servant for good; let not the proud oppress me.↗ (Writings PSA.119.122, JPS 1917)↗

oppressed — Everyday, meaning 1: Treated in a cruel and unfair way by people with power, and not given freedom or rights.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (feeling) Weighed down by worry or sadness, as in "oppressed by the heat".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (the oppressed) People who are treated unfairly by those in power.↗ Example: The workers were oppressed by the cruel factory owner.↗ · Martin Luther King Jr. spoke up for oppressed people.↗ · In the Bible, the Israelites were oppressed in Egypt.↗ · Many charities help the poor and the oppressed.↗ · She felt oppressed by the heavy, hot air.↗ · The king oppressed his people with high taxes.↗ · In the story, the oppressed villagers rose up against the tyrant.↗ · A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.↗ · The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed away: (Torah DEU.28.33, JPS 1917)↗ · If any one sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and deal falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of pledge, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbour; (Torah LEV.6.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.↗ (Torah DEU.28.29, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.↗ (Prophets ISA.38.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.↗ (Writings 2CH.16.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.↗ (Prophets 2KI.13.22, JPS 1917)↗

oppression — Everyday, meaning 1: Oppression is cruel and unfair treatment of people, keeping them down and taking away their freedom.↗ Example: The people suffered under the oppression of the cruel king.↗ · The hero ended the oppression.↗ · Freedom is the opposite of oppression.↗ · And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.↗ (Torah EXO.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And we cried unto the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression.↗ (Torah DEU.26.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?'↗ (Writings PSA.42.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?↗ (Writings PSA.43.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?↗ (Writings PSA.44.25, JPS 1917)↗

oppressive — Everyday, meaning 1: Cruel and unfair, keeping people down and taking away their freedom: an oppressive ruler.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of weather: hot, heavy and airless, making you feel uncomfortable.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Making you feel worried, sad or weighed down: an oppressive silence.↗ Example: The people rose up against the oppressive king.↗ · The heat was oppressive before the storm broke.↗ · Mole felt the oppressive silence of the Wild Wood.↗ · Slavery was an oppressive and cruel system.↗ · The air in the attic was hot and oppressive.↗ · An oppressive feeling of dread filled the room.↗ · Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was burning sunshine and oppressive heat.↗

oppressor — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who treats others cruelly and unfairly and uses power to keep them down.↗ Example: And where is the fury of the oppressor?↗ (Prophets ISA.51.13, JPS 1917)↗ · I have done justice and righteousness; leave me not to mine oppressors.↗ (Writings PSA.119.121, JPS 1917)↗ · or: 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'? or: 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors'?↗ (Writings JOB.6.23, JPS 1917)↗

opprobrium — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Public shame or disgrace, bad name.↗ Example: On the further attribution of these Seven letters, note that Postellus gives : Vita — Mors, Pax — afflictio, Sapientia — stultitia, Divitiae (Opus) — paupertas, Gratia — opprobrium.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗