appose
Americanverb (used with object)
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to place side by side, as two things; place next to; juxtapose.
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to put or apply (one thing) to or near to another.
verb
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to place side by side or near to each other
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(usually foll by to) to place (something) near or against another thing
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of appose
1585–95; by analogy with compose, propose, etc. < Latin appōnere to place near, set alongside, equivalent to ap- ap- 1 + pōnere to place
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Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems to be abbreviated from the old verb "to appose;" which meant, to set a task, to subject to an examination or interrogatory; and hence to perplex, to embarrass, to puzzle.
From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
In a will of James I.'s reign, the curate of a parish is to appose the children of a charity-school.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Although some pericytes may slightly move away from capillaries after hypoxia or brain injury, we only counted pericytes apposed to capillaries in this study.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
Hydrophobic amino acids are found in the domains that are apposed to the hydrocarbon tails of the phospholipids.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Also shown is LTC Dave Spencer, team leader who prefers the percussion method as apposed to my traditional stlye.
From Time Magazine Archive
After coffee, Watson capitulated: perhaps the backbone was on the outside, and the bases—A, T, G, and C—faced in, apposed against each other.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Endothelium and Mesothelium.—Lining the blood vessels, lymph vessels and lymph spaces are found flattened cells apposed to one another by their edges to form an extremely thin membrane.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
In this sense, the Art of Fugue and the St. Matthew Passion were, for the evolving organism of human thought, feathered wings, apposing thumbs, new layers of frontal cortex.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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.
From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin
The external surface of the process presented an area of attachment for muscles arising from the apposing internal surface of the cheek.
From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Fox, Richard C.
Carpal luxation when present is to be recognized by finding the apposing carpal bones joined in an abnormal manner—that is, out of position.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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