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# opposite

«opposite» in Mova's school dictionary: **the thing that is as different as can be: up is the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (opposite, opposites); adjective (opposite); preposition and adverb (opposite)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The opposite is the thing that is as different as can be: up is the opposite of down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#m1)

2) Opposite also means facing, on the other side: the shop opposite the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#m2)

3) In shapes, opposite sides or angles are across from each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: opposite sides of a shape (equal in a rectangle); opposite operations (add and subtract, multiply and divide); places facing each other; the opposite of a number like 5 is −5. In English lessons: opposites (antonyms) like hot and cold. In science: opposite poles of magnets attract. In stories: «the opposite bank of the river».

### examples

- Opposite sides of a rectangle are equal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x1)
- Subtraction is the opposite of addition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x2)
- The shop is opposite the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x3)
- The opposite side is 8 cm long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x4)
- Hot is the opposite of cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x5)
- Opposite poles of a magnet pull together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x6)
- She sat opposite me at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x7)
- The twins like opposite things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x8)
- Multiplication and division are opposite operations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x9)
- ‘It is just the opposite of you! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/#x10)

### note

In shapes, opposite sides of a rectangle are equal, so you can find a missing side. Opposite operations undo each other. Trap: «opposite» as a place gives no number. Spelling: opposite (double «p», one «s»). «Opposite to» and «opposite» (with no «to») are both used for places.

### In the corpora

- [In a hole in the opposite bank something twinkles: an eye, then a whiskered brown face.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/6/)
- [This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/33/)
- [Baking soda is a mild alkali, the opposite of an acid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/1/)
- [mǎi (dipping) is to buy and mài (falling) is to sell; only the tone tells these opposites apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/15/)
- [dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the slang «diss» comes from «disrespect».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «opposite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opposite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.