opposing direction

collocation in English

meaningsofopposinganddirection

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opposing
adjective[before noun]
uk
/əˈpəʊ.zɪŋ/us
/əˈpoʊ.zɪŋ/
competing or fighting against ...
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direction
noun
uk
/daɪˈrek.ʃən/us
/dɪˈrek.ʃən/
the position towards which someone or something moves ...
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(Definition ofopposinganddirectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Neither was up to modern freeway standards, utilizing left turns across theopposingdirectionat access points.
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If the needle tilts to one direction, tilt the compass slightly and gently to theopposingdirection until the compass needle is horizontal, lengthwise.
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Thrusters must be fired in one direction to start rotation, and again in theopposingdirectionif a new orientation is to be held.
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The wrestler, while behind the opponent, facing away from him in theopposingdirection, hooks his arms under the opponent's.
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When arriving at the head bead, one turns the mala around and then goes back in theopposingdirection.
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The other factor may be the growth of clinical obesity in the average woman, but theopposingdirection being taken in the figures of media personalities.
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This epidemic appears to have been carried into the region from two opposing directions.
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Electromagnetic interference, on the other hand, induces voltages in opposing directions across the coils because it is only sensitive to the winding direction.
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The gear threads of the roller member and finger followers are in opposing directions.
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It is an equal mixture of two mirror-image isomers (enantiomers), optically active in opposing directions.
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The film describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions.
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The two by now global empires, which had set out from opposing directions, had finally met on the other side of the world.
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In the second case, for waves of equal amplitude traveling in opposing directions, there is on average no net propagation of energy.
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This means when the shaft swivels, the roller member and finger followers will move in opposing directions, moving either apart or closer together.
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Notice the analogy here with the radio dial example using split gears, where the split halves are pushed in opposing directions.
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Two layers of plywood strips were spirally wrapped in opposing directions over a mold to form one half of a fuselage shell.
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The goal has no net, as the two teams score through the goal from opposing directions.
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These fluxes can act in opposing directions, that is either delivering heat to or removing heat from the snowpack.
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Povenmire then draws his eyeballs, which are never focused and look in opposing directions in a daze.
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This means one cause of engine vibration usually appears in two opposing directions.
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