Word Meanings - APPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic

Additional info about word: APPOSITION

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance. (more info) 1. The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot. 2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPOSITION)

• Contact
• Touch
• contiguity
• continuity
• apposition
• adjunction

Related words: (words related to APPOSITION)

• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.
• CONTACT
  The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• TOUCHINESS
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• TOUCHSTONE
  Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite. 2. Fig.:
• TOUCH-ME-NOT
  See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
• TOUCHDOWN
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.
• TOUCH-PAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• TOUCHABLE
  Capable of being touched; tangible. -- Touch"a*ble*ness, n.
• TOUCH
  zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to E. tug. See Tuck, 1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach
• TOUCH-BOX
  A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
• APPOSITIONAL
  Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.
• ADJUNCTION
  The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
• CONTIGUITY
  The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• CARTOUCH
  An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. (more info) cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. A cartridge
• RETOUCH
  To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork. (more info) 1. To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.