Dichotomies - English meaning

noun

Active hostility or opposition.

Usage examples:

The antagonism between them

noun

Strong dislike or opposition, or a particular example of it

Usage examples:

[ u ] the attorney accused the witness of antagonism toward his client.

noun

A deep fissure in the earth's surface.

Usage examples:

A chasm a mile long

noun

A deep opening in earth or rock

Usage examples:

The little bridge over that deep chasm looked very unsafe.

noun

A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

Usage examples:

The eternal conflict between the sexes

verb

Be incompatible or at variance; clash.

Usage examples:

Parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict

noun

An active disagreement, as between opposing opinions or needs

Usage examples:

[ c ] conflicts between parents and children become more frequent when the children become teenager…

noun

A combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another.

Usage examples:

The proposed new system suffers from a set of internal contradictions

noun

Contrary opposition.

Usage examples:

Does the sentence express a sort of opposition, either contradiction or contrariety etc.?

noun

The state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.

Usage examples:

The day began cold and blustery, in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine

verb

Differ strikingly.

Usage examples:

His friend's success contrasted with his own failure

noun

An easily noticed or understood difference between two or more things

Usage examples:

[ u ] she is quite petite, in contrast with her tall sister., [ c ] contrasts between manhattan’s r…

noun

A point or way in which people or things are dissimilar.

Usage examples:

The differences between men and women

verb

Alter (a coat of arms) to distinguish members or branches of a family.

noun

The way in which two things being compared are not the same, or the fact of not being the same

Usage examples:

[ c ] we try to teach the kids the difference between right and wrong., [ c ] we’d like better seat…

noun

A lack of correspondence or consistency.

Usage examples:

There is a disjunction between the skills taught in education and those demanded in the labour market

noun

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.

Usage examples:

The division of the land into small fields

noun

The separation of something into parts or groups, or one of the parts or groups that has been separated

Usage examples:

[ u ] the division of responsibilities among the officers of the company was spelled out in detail.…

noun

One of the main separate parts that a company, or group of companies, is divided into

Usage examples:

The year-on-year profit figure for the division fell by 36%., investment/services/international div…

noun

The legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.

Usage examples:

Her divorce from her first husband

verb

Legally dissolve one's marriage with (someone).

Usage examples:

She divorced him in 1965

noun

A divorced person.

noun

A deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.

Usage examples:

The land companies began to dredge canals through the marshlands, opening easy access from the sett…

noun

An area of sea surrounded on three sides by land

Usage examples:

The gulf of mexico/the gulf coast, the gulf stream, there is a widening gulf between the rich and t…

noun

The property of having poles or being polar.

Usage examples:

It exhibits polarity when presented to a magnetic needle

noun

The quality in an object that produces opposite magnetic or electric charges

noun

The action or state of moving or being moved apart.

Usage examples:

The damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children

verb

Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.

Usage examples:

The ice cracked and split

noun

A tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain.

Usage examples:

Splits appeared in the decaying planks

proper noun

A seaport on the coast of southern croatia; population 177,500 (est. 2009). founded as a roman colony in 78 bc, it contains the ruins of the palace of the emperor diocletian, built in about ad 300.