opposite end

collocation in English

meanings of oppositeand end

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opposite
adjective
uk /ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/ us /ˈɑː.pə.zɪt/
completely ...
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end
noun
uk /end/ us /end/
the part of a place or thing that is furthest away from ...
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Examples of opposite end

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The oppositeend has a small opening.
At the oppositeend of the spectrum lies reading a word list.
Again, conflation is a problem, but this time at the oppositeend of the hierarchy.
At the oppositeend of the cultural spectrum are spiritualists of a different breed.
My problem lies with those economists who occupy the oppositeend of this spectrum.
This is shown too by dissenting voices from the oppositeend of the political spectrum.
One end of a channel is oblivious to whether or not its oppositeend is connected or moves.
The wheel freely rotated in a vertical plane with a counterweight fixed at the oppositeend of the slab.
In general, pure legume silages have the highest economic value, with grass at the oppositeend of the scale.
Disputes are at the oppositeend of the argumentative spectrum: differences between disputants are so radical that accommodation is impossible.
I want to begin the case for corporate personality right at the oppositeend of the spectrum.
At the oppositeend of the scale, around one quarter of both county and commercial towns were counted amongst the lowest order centres.
At the oppositeend of the spectrum, we actually received enthusiastic support from one commentator for what are seen as our behaviorist proclivities.
At the oppositeend of the spectrum, there is a minority, probably around 10% of the population, whose political position is markedly different.
The net taxis provides a single value that gives the direction and degree of net movement in comparison to the oppositeend.
How, to look at the problem from the oppositeend, does one integrate the mass of detailed work on individual nations into a whole picture?
Animals are placed into one end of a water-filled tank that has two computer monitors facing into arms at the oppositeend.
The same policy is, in our example, also selected by an outcome criterion on the oppositeend of the ideological spectrum.
On the oppositeend of this continuum, denaturalization expresses language through which speakers signal imposture or falsity through ruptures of ongoing or assumed identities.
The counterweight was placed at the oppositeend of the boom such that the leg was only lifting its own weight.
At the oppositeend of the spectrum is the asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic, late-onset, form of the disease (associated with only a small triplet repeat expansion).
After 5 min, an intruder was gently introduced at the oppositeend of the tube to the resident and the tube re-sealed.
In the new nation-state, the labourer occupied a place on the political spectrum at the oppositeend from the landholder.
That is exactly at the oppositeend.
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