OPPOSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opposing mean? 

• OPPOSING (adjective)
  The adjective OPPOSING has 1 sense:

1. characterized by active hostility

  Familiarity information: OPPOSING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPPOSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by active hostility

Synonyms:

opponent; opposing

Context example:

opponent (or opposing) armies

Similar:

hostile (characterized by enmity or ill will)

 Context examples 

A device designed to use opposing parts to close on and hold an object.

(Jaw Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Formation of Bistrand Abasic Site involves the creation of an apurinic or apyrimidinic site on one strand with a loss of the opposing purine or pyrimidine residue on the other DNA strand.

(Formation of Bistrand Abasic Site, NCI Thesaurus)

Oriental medicine aims to restore the body's balance and harmony between the natural opposing forces of yin and yang, which can block qi and cause disease.

(Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, NCI Dictionary)

She was resolved not to be convinced, as long as she could doubt, and yet had no authority for opposing Harriet's confidence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"These two proteins are very similar in structure, but they are doing opposing things in cells," says Felix Hausch, Ph.D., the project's principal investigator.

(Depression, Obesity, Chronic Pain Could be Treated by Targeting the Same Key Protein, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A physical attribute of visual balance and proportion between opposing structures.

(Physical Symmetry, NCI Thesaurus)

The new moon at the end of October should have helped you, but Uranus, your ruler, was acting up, opposing the moon and Sun.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The hypar origami form, with its sweeping opposing arcs and saddle shape, has long been popular with artists working in the paper-folding tradition.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

Csk (COOH-terminal Src kinase) phosphorylates Lck and deactivates it, opposing the action of CD45.

(CSK Protein Kinase Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

One suggestion included the back-and-forth rubbing of opposing walls of the fractures generating frictional heat that turned ice into geyser-forming vapor and liquid.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)