What is the meaning of OPPOSE. Phrases containing OPPOSE
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v. i.
To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act.
a.
One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
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Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
a.
Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.
n.
One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.
n.
One who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist. Cf. Neptunist.
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Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible.
imp. & p. p.
of Oppose
a.
Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
n.
To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand; as, to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress.
n.
A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
n.
A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.
adv.
Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.
adv.
In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
n.
The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
n.
One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
n.
To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize.
n. pl.
An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.
a.
Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
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