juxtaposition

juxtapose | American Dictionary

juxtapose
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdʒʌk·stəˈpoʊz/
to put things or people next to each other, esp. in order to compare them:
The exhibition juxtaposes architectural drawings with photographs of the buildings as constructed.

juxtaposition

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌdʒʌk·stə·pəˈzɪʃ·ən/
[ C ]The juxtaposition of the original painting with the fake clearly showed up the differences.

Examples of juxtapose

juxtapose
These examples represent an infinitesimal portion of the space created by juxtaposing variations of just one theme against each other.
As such, it follows a recurrent trope that juxtaposes a religious exterior with its underlying immorality.
Prepositional arguments of the head noun, for instance, are merely juxtaposed to it.
Judgments must return to intent, context, and comprehension: how the artist intended the work, how she juxtaposes materials, and how the consumer 'reads' the result.
This point is reinforced by juxtaposing the correspondent's depiction of domestic interiors with those of public spaces in his reports.
While this is controversal, many linguists tend to use it informally, nonetheless, and then juxtapose their intuited results with dates derived from archaeology.
With care and sensitivity he manages to juxtapose, place and transform his field recordings without contrivance.
Text or images or maps, when incorporated in archaeological publication, do not work in isolation; they are juxtaposed.
The text works by effectively juxtaposing a series of debates, authors, etc. but it can then come across as sprawling rather than coherent.
Traditional forms of text - narratives - are dissolved into isolated fragments that can then be juxtaposed in a pastiche.
In juxtaposing ideological content to linguistic form, this alternative hypothesis fails to take into account the embeddedness of content in form.
Such narrow definitions often juxtapose 'law in action' with the 'law in the books'.
A computerised real-time performance is fundamentally different from the classical experiences of juxtaposing instruments and tape.
But much more profoundly, the chapter juxtaposes the family and community relationships of the working and middle class.
It offers no real surprises, but the chosen form of juxtaposing each politician's version of a certain episode is very rewarding.
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