Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an opposite or adverse manner; in front; in a situation facing each other; adversely; contrarily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
opposite manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an opposite position
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Examples
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A house, quite oppositely, provides enough fuel for a serious blaze.
Peter Winter: Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave Peter Winter 2011
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Folks who think oppositely of the folks who quietly fund the Cato Institute.
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A house, quite oppositely, provides enough fuel for a serious blaze.
Peter Winter: Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave Peter Winter 2011
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A cloud of gas that is gravitationally attracted to the black hole can have a net angular momentum oppositely directed from that of the black hole.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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So there could be active periods where the gas cloud has oppositely directed angular momentum and power jets are established.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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The oppositely polarized inside and outside of your heart cells always have an unequal distribution of ions inside and outside of the cell.
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Lists turn out to have their own quirks: while one could be very open to tell-a-friend or volunteer requests but not so good at giving money, another might respond oppositely.
Colin Delany: Winning in 2010: Online Fundraising and Mobilization 2010
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Lists turn out to have their own quirks: while one could be very open to tell-a-friend or volunteer requests but not so good at giving money, another might respond oppositely.
Colin Delany: Winning in 2010: Online Fundraising and Mobilization Colin Delany 2010
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Lists turn out to have their own quirks: while one could be very open to tell-a-friend or volunteer requests but not so good at giving money, another might respond oppositely.
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I think it is less about how the black hole came to be rotating oppositely directed from the accretion disk, but rather visa versa.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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