"apposition" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌæpəˈzɪʃn̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-apposition.wav [US] Forms: appositions [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositiō, past participle of appōnere (“to put near”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|apposicioun}} Middle English apposicioun, {{der|en|frm|apposition}} Middle French apposition, {{der|en|la|appositiō}} Latin appositiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)
  1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar Synonyms: parathesis Translations (grammatical construction): приложение (priloženie) (Bulgarian), aposició [feminine] (Catalan), 同位語 (Chinese Mandarin), 同位语 (tóngwèiyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), přístavek [masculine] (Czech), navnetillæg (Danish), navnesamstilling (Danish), bijstelling [feminine] (Dutch), appositie [feminine] (Dutch), appositio (Finnish), rinnastus (Finnish), apposition [feminine] (French), Apposition [feminine] (German), Beisatz [masculine] (German), Beifügung [feminine] (German), παράθεση (paráthesi) [feminine] (Greek), adpozo (Ido), comhaisnéis [feminine] (Irish), apposizione [feminine] (Italian), co-aishnys [feminine] (Manx), apozycja [feminine] (Polish), aposição [feminine] (Portuguese), aposto [masculine] (Portuguese), apoziție (Romanian), приложе́ние (priložénije) [neuter] (Russian), aposición [feminine] (Spanish), apposition [common-gender] (Swedish) Translations (relationship in such construction): rinnasteisuus (Finnish), apposition [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-en:grammar_construction Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 17 15 2 16 14 7 15 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'grammatical construction': 49 11 10 5 6 8 1 10 Disambiguation of 'relationship in such construction': 46 26 7 2 5 5 1 8
  2. (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-en:grammar_relationship Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 17 15 2 16 14 7 15 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  3. The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being side by side): rinnakkaisuus (Finnish), aposição [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-Q7vFxFgc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 17 15 2 16 14 7 15 Disambiguation of 'quality of being side by side': 3 2 62 25 3 2 0 4
  4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (placing of two things side by side): aposició [feminine] (Catalan), rinnastaminen (Finnish), aposição [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-AbQvT2CJ Disambiguation of 'placing of two things side by side': 3 1 40 50 1 2 0 2
  5. (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology Translations (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall): aposició [feminine] (Catalan), appositio (Finnish), kerrostuminen (Finnish), Apposition [feminine] (German), apozycja [feminine] (Polish), aposição [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-dBv2pyTo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 17 15 2 16 14 7 15 Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall': 12 8 11 2 55 6 3 5
  6. (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required. Tags: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Categories (topical): Rhetoric
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-KEx7W3Ts Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 17 15 2 16 14 7 15
  7. A public disputation by scholars. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-4IEC-sAy
  8. (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London. Tags: UK, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-apposition-en-noun-Dx46yUZs Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 17 15 2 16 14 7 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: appositional, malapposition, reapposition

Noun [Finnish]

Head templates: {{head|fi|noun form}} apposition
  1. genitive singular of appositio Tags: form-of, genitive, singular Form of: appositio
    Sense id: en-apposition-fi-noun-DcnWFQVb Categories (other): Finnish entries with incorrect language header

Noun [French]

IPA: /a.po.zi.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-apposition.wav Forms: appositions [plural]
Etymology: From Latin appositiōnem. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|la|appositiō|appositiōnem}} Latin appositiōnem Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} apposition f (plural appositions)
  1. apposition Tags: feminine Related terms: apposer
    Sense id: en-apposition-fr-noun-NF4Lq1hk Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for apposition meaning in All languages combined (14.5kB)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.