opposite

«opposite» in Mova's school dictionary: the thing that is as different as can be: up is the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (opposite, opposites); adjective (opposite); preposition and adverb (opposite)

meaning for a pupil

1) The opposite is the thing that is as different as can be: up is the opposite of down. tree →

2) Opposite also means facing, on the other side: the shop opposite the school. tree →

3) In shapes, opposite sides or angles are across from each other. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: opposite sides of a shape (equal in a rectangle); opposite operations (add and subtract, multiply and divide); places facing each other; the opposite of a number like 5 is −5. In English lessons: opposites (antonyms) like hot and cold. In science: opposite poles of magnets attract. In stories: «the opposite bank of the river».

examples

• Opposite sides of a rectangle are equal. tree →
• Subtraction is the opposite of addition. tree →
• The shop is opposite the school. tree →
• The opposite side is 8 cm long. tree →
• Hot is the opposite of cold. tree →
• Opposite poles of a magnet pull together. tree →
• She sat opposite me at lunch. tree →
• The twins like opposite things. tree →
• Multiplication and division are opposite operations. tree →
• ‘It is just the opposite of you! tree →

note

In shapes, opposite sides of a rectangle are equal, so you can find a missing side. Opposite operations undo each other. Trap: «opposite» as a place gives no number. Spelling: opposite (double «p», one «s»). «Opposite to» and «opposite» (with no «to») are both used for places.

In the corpora

• In a hole in the opposite bank something twinkles: an eye, then a whiskered brown face.
• This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someone.
• Baking soda is a mild alkali, the opposite of an acid.
• mǎi (dipping) is to buy and mài (falling) is to sell; only the tone tells these opposites apart.
• dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the slang «diss» comes from «disrespect».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «opposite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.