APPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appose mean? 

• APPOSE (verb)
  The verb APPOSE has 1 sense:

1. place side by side or in close proximity

  Familiarity information: APPOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they appose    ... he / she / it apposes   
Past simple: apposed   
Past participle: apposed   
-ing form: apposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place side by side or in close proximity

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "appose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

apposable (capable of being placed opposite to something)

apposition (the act of positioning close together (or side by side))

appositive (relating to or being in apposition)