opposite end

collocation in English

meaningsofoppositeandend

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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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(Definition ofoppositeandendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofopposite end

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