Preposition : The guest of honor sat opposite me at the banquet. ,He has played opposite many leading ladies. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : I was at one end and she sat opposite. ,I went to the left balcony, and he went opposite. From Dictionary.com.
There were only two sets of pendulums, swinging oppositely. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
Machines that are not producing heat behave just oppositely. From Wordnik.com. [Exercise Sweetbriar] Reference
Generally the pulses of the wrist and the brain vary oppositely. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Hanno and Svoboda benched themselves oppositely at the doorward end. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
There is a vast continuum wherein these two concepts sit oppositely. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Passing Off Debt To People Who Make Less Than Two Dollars A Day] Reference
Holding two oppositely polarized magnets as close together as she can. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
A four-fingered hand, thumb set oppositely to a man's, gestured outward. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
Folks who think oppositely of the folks who quietly fund the Cato Institute. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Lobbyist-Bashing] Reference
In nature, it forms as a three-dimensional array of oppositely charged ions (Figure 2). From Wordnik.com. [Matter] Reference
Jason used to say they were the product of "dipolar sperm penetrating oppositely charged eggs.". From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
I used to take classes into the gym to be the electrons and spin in pairs oppositely of course. From Wordnik.com. [Stuck on bonding] Reference
The outer hull was rotating, oppositely to the wheel, something that should never have happened. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
I say let kids enjoy what they want -- gender is a spectrum, not two oppositely defined endpoints. From Wordnik.com. [Girly Boys: boys who have gendered girl interests and boys on girl's teams.] Reference
That men should judge very oppositely on so doubtful and precarious an event, will hardly surprise. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
This compound forms in nature as a highly ordered, three-dimensional network of oppositely charged ions. From Wordnik.com. [Matter] Reference
There were also parasol trees, which reacted oppositely, spreading for the sun and folding for the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon Street] Reference
Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #14 « Climate Audit] Reference
Lightning is a giant spark that passes between oppositely charged clouds or between the clouds and the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The generation of current produces oppositely charged ions that attract opposite charged particles in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Colon Cleansing - Triphala Works Superb] Reference
Concerning the other Orator, Lucius Licinius Crassus, the husbands of his two daughters have fared oppositely in the nursery. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
So there could be active periods where the gas cloud has oppositely directed angular momentum and power jets are established. From Wordnik.com. [Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today] Reference
Whatever the actual differences in brains of the oppositely gendered, they are both caused and dwarfed by that devil testosterone. From Wordnik.com. [[male brain] an interesting organ] Reference
I think it is less about how the black hole came to be rotating oppositely directed from the accretion disk, but rather visa versa. From Wordnik.com. [Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today] Reference
Still the idea invites a worthwhile question: Is there anything human beings can produce that would function oppositely to mimetic poetry?. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Aesthetics] Reference
The oppositely polarized inside and outside of your heart cells always have an unequal distribution of ions inside and outside of the cell. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Wiley: Can Staying Up Late Cause Heart Disease?] Reference
Holding 2 oppositely directional keys produce no movement. From Wordnik.com. [AutoHotkey Community] Reference
I love how Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are so oppositely dressed. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Not Obsessed -] Reference
Here it is clear that when the rod hides the oppositely-colored sector, the deduction of that color is replaced. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Furthermore, we discuss how estrogen and NFκB crosstalk in osteoblasts acts to oppositely regulate bone formation. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Inducing a charge to the particles to have them be more attractive to an oppositely charged collector system perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot: Science] Reference
After drying, the clay can be removed by brushing or by causing the beans to travel between oppositely reciprocated wet cloths. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
At low speeds, they are steered oppositely to the front wheels, reducing the turning circle by approximately 0. 5meters (1.6 feet). From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
The array of brilliant lights, dividing itself, formed into two disks which, revolving oppositely, sang the praises of the Trinity. From Wordnik.com. [National Epics] Reference
"The black hole somehow diverts some of the matter falling toward it into two oppositely directed jets that stream away from the center.". From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
If, on the contrary, the wire be moved across the lines of force towards the reader, the induced current will flow oppositely to the arrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
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