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Meanings of opposite in английском
Characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed.
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Examples for "polar"
Examples for "polar"
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These time comparisons suggested recent Hg increase in East Greenland polar bears.
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A polar vortex across the midwest and northeast didn't exactly help business.
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A road sign warns of polar bear danger on the entire island.
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The polar influence reaches only a short distance into our continent, however.
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Human refuges now confined entirely to highland areas and the polar regions.
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The entire thing implied such a diametrical reversal of Akeley's previous attitude!
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The doctrine of the Sufis was in diametrical opposition to this.
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The two organisations involved are diametrical opposites in their basic philosophies.
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Any machine giving a straight diametrical stroke will answer the purpose.
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Nevertheless, in diametrical contradiction to his own principles, Hume says elsewhere:-
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What they say privately is in diametric opposition to their public statements and positions.
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Gene Wilder was the diametric opposite of an Internet troll.
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Christianity stands firm in its diametric opposition to the cold calculation of who deserves what.
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When he woke, he understood that his soul had undergone another of its diametric inversions.
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It mirrored their religious traits, the diametric opposition.
Usage of opposite in английском
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In Europe, unfortunately, things seem to be going exactly the opposite way.
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However, as before mentioned, the result was at first almost exactly opposite.
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In all three cases, public opinion polling pointed to the opposite result.
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In truth, the opposite is far more likely to be the case.
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But to know people, you need the opposite method: trust, love, openness.
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For his opposite number Brian Ashton the result produced an unenviable double.
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It was the opposite a year ago, Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said.
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But earlier this year in Japan, the opposite happened: the yen rallied.
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The obvious implication was that the free market had created the opposite.
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Eurocentric cultural stories of power tell us its the opposite of power.
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Niryn did not regret his lowly birth; quite the opposite, in fact.
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He doubted that opinion would carry much weight with his opposite number.
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His subsequent theatrical career has, of course, had exactly the opposite effect.
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Words intended to be well-meaning may in fact have the opposite effect.
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The building, opposite the Wellington Railway Station, opened just six years ago.
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Indeed, different transcription factors isoforms may have different or even opposite functions.
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