Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
appose .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word apposing.
Examples
-
• He reduced transparency in federal small business contracting programs by apposing the release of information under the Freedom of Information Act that would prove that large prime contractors have received billions of dollars in federal small business contracts.
Lloyd Chapman: The Only Man in America that Obama Has Not Fooled Speaks Out Lloyd Chapman 2012
-
(I feel the same way about golf) For me to enjoy baseball, I must attending the game, get a little drunk, eat a hot dog and/or pretzel and heckle the apposing team or my Dad's favorite player.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
-
Several weeks back Obama requested the country to report people for spreading untruths (aka apposing him) about his healthcare reform.
-
After seeing today's rules committee actually take delegates from Hillary and give them to the apposing candidate shocked me to my very core.
Florida compromise seats delegation, gives each half vote 2008
-
I can only guess the good man Andy was expecting all this apposing feedback.
-
It is my belief that the numerous murders and bombings which are occurring, for example, in Iraq, are broken also into two categories: One is planned hits by the Bushites upon business owners whose businesses they coveted to sell to their cronies, the other is; "accidental" killings of those Iraqi's with an apposing point of view.
ABCD's Of PoliticReligion: Avarice, Bush, Chavez, Dante, And The Deference's Between Bush & Chavez 2007
-
No, the objective is to state the immediate consequence of such a governmental discrimination: nobody would again risk apposing his or her signature on a recall election least the person being voted upon wins and is able to seek revenge.
Gutting civil rights in Venezuela: the Recall Election example 2007
-
The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study.
-
Moreover, because of the fact that the apposing pieces of bone are beveled, the broken ends of bone are likely to pass one another in such a way as to shorten the distance between the extremities of the injured member.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
-
Carpal luxation when present is to be recognized by finding the apposing carpal bones joined in an abnormal manner -- that is, out of position.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
jmjarmstrong commented on the word apposing
JM is opposing random apposing.
January 18, 2011