apposition
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition
Types & categories
- qualifying hypernym
Related & opposite
- appositional derivation
Sense 2 noun
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
Types & categories
- growth hypernym
Related & opposite
- biology domain topic
Sense 3 noun
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
Types & categories
- locating hypernym
- tessellation hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | appositional |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | qualifying |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | biology |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | growth |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lump |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | appose |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | juxtapose |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | locating |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tessellation |