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THE OTHER WAY AROUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does the other way around mean?
• THE OTHER WAY AROUND (adverb)
The adverb THE OTHER WAY AROUND has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: THE OTHER WAY AROUND used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• THE OTHER WAY AROUND (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With the order reversed
Synonyms:
contrariwise; the other way around; vice versa
Context example:
she hates him and vice versa
Context examples
Bill would have, though, had it been the other way around, he mused as he staggered on.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Or maybe it is the other way around – that is, a single comet could be tugged into a curious shape by the strong gravitational pull of a large object like Jupiter or the Sun; after all, comets are rubble piles with weak internal strength as directly witnessed in the fragmentation of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the subsequent impacts into Jupiter, 20 years ago this week.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
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