JUXTAPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does juxtapose mean? 

• JUXTAPOSE (verb)
  The verb JUXTAPOSE has 1 sense:

1. place side by side

  Familiarity information: JUXTAPOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUXTAPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they juxtapose    ... he / she / it juxtaposes   
Past simple: juxtaposed   
Past participle: juxtaposed   
-ing form: juxtaposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place side by side

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors

Hypernyms (to "juxtapose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

juxtaposition (the act of positioning close together (or side by side))

juxtaposition (a side-by-side position)

 Context examples 

Juxtaposed with another zinc finger protein 1 (243 aa, ~27 kDa) is encoded by the human JAZF1 gene.

(Juxtaposed With Another Zinc Finger Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is predicted to contain the extreme N-terminus of the juxtaposed with another zinc finger protein 1 protein fused to most of the polycomb protein SUZ12.

(JAZF1/SUZ12 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes juxtaposed with another zinc finger protein 1, may play a role in the modulation of transcription.

(JAZF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from paracentric inversion of chromosome 12 which juxtaposes the first 3 exons of the HGMA2 gene with exon 13 and part of the 3' untranslated region of the ALDH2 gene.

(HMGA2/ALDH2 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)