and according to them, whatever one fancies one feels, what one feels in fact is the opposite.

And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

Namely, a transsexual who has completed gender reassignment surgery is certainly not considered cross-dressing, unless they were to wear clothes of the gender opposite of what they have transitioned to.

When a metal wire is subjected to electric force applied on its opposite ends, these free electrons rush in the direction of the force, thus forming what we call an electric current.

Camouflage can be achieved in what may seem opposite ways.

The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.

A reviewer concluded that Stickel brought forward every possible argument which would speak for that hypothesis, but he proved the opposite of what he had attempted to do ( Johannes Gildemeister in ZDMG 13, 1859, 289 – 304 ).

The electrical properties of the two pieces of glass are similar to each other but opposite to those of the two pieces of resin: The glass attracts what the resin repels and repels what the resin attracts.

In Spanish " sustituir " means " replace " so that " sustituir A por B " means " replace A with B " or " substitute B for A ", the opposite of what it apparently might look like.

In this, it is similar to the laws of physics: in the same way as the Third of Newton's laws of Motion requires that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction, justice requires according individuals or groups what they actually deserve, merit, or are entitled to.

His predecessor in a like case was John Owtred, a monk who formulated the statement that Saint Peter had united in his hands spiritual and temporal power – the opposite of what Wycliffe taught.

" Matthew Restall argues that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortés ( if indeed he did ever give the speech as reported ) may well have been meant as the exactly opposite of what it was taken to mean: politeness in Aztec culture was a way to assert dominance and show superiority.

Among the first recorded uses of the word " pseudo-science " was in 1844 in the Northern Journal of Medicine, I 387: " That opposite kind of innovation which pronounces what has been recognized as a branch of science, to have been a pseudo-science, composed merely of so-called facts, connected together by misapprehensions under the disguise of principles ".

He takes the slip to the shopkeeper, who opens the drawer marked ' apples ', then he looks up the word ' red ' in a table and finds a colour sample opposite it ; then he says the series of cardinal numbers — I assume that he knows them by heart — up to the word ' five ' and for each number he takes an apple of the same colour as the sample out of the drawer .— It is in this and similar ways that one operates with words —" But how does he know where and how he is to look up the word ' red ' and what he is to do with the word ' five '?

Drawing on what he has read in comic books during his many hospital stays, Price theorizes that if he is frail at one extreme, then perhaps there is someone strong at the opposite extreme.

Other word processing functions include spell checking ( actually checks against wordlists ), " grammar checking " ( checks for what seem to be simple grammar errors ), and a " thesaurus " function ( finds words with similar or opposite meanings ).

The Nature of the Universe is such that it accomplishes what is right and prevents the opposite, and is identified with unconditional Fate, while allowing it the free-will attributed to it.

Their meeting is the opposite of what he had hoped for in his dreams ; she is unattractive ( due to her weight and pallor ), foolish, and insipid.

Infinity turns out to be the opposite of what people say it is.

An ongoing theme that he constantly explores is dualism, the idea that you can't understand what you're looking at unless you know its opposite.

That year, she made what some consider to be one of her best films, Mayerling, in which she played the supporting role of Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria opposite James Mason as Emperor Franz Joseph I.

She was buried in Westminster Abbey, on 3 August, in what has been described as a " somewhat hard to find tomb " on the opposite side of Edward the Confessor's shrine and slightly above eye level for a person of average height.

This model is important because it has nearly opposite ramifications for what the media ought to do about the copycat suicide effect than the standard model does.

Inertia would necessitate powerful thrusters to start or stop rotation, or electric motors to spin two massive portions of a vessel in opposite senses.

James J Greene writes on the subject: “ If one of the seminally powerful myths in the cultural memory of our past is Aeneas ' rejection of his African queen in order to go on and found the Roman empire, than it is surely significant that Shakespeare's ... depicts precisely and quite deliberately the opposite course of action from that celebrated by Virgil.

It was more against his brother than his foreign enemies that Nicomedes now called in the assistance of more powerful auxiliaries and entered into an alliance with the Celts who, under Leonnorius and Lutarius, had arrived on the opposite side of the Bosphorus and were, at this time, engaged in the siege of Byzantium, 277 BC.

Initially the diametric opposite of Odin, a frail magic-user who is poor at hand-to-hand combat, Noah eventually becomes one of the strongest overall characters due to his powerful magical abilities.

A “ permissions culture ” is the opposite of a free culture ; in a permissions culture, creators and innovators are only able to create and innovate with the permission of creators of the past – whether they be powerful creators or not.

Concerns have been raised that the powerful flash used when the cameras trigger may dazzle drivers travelling in the opposite direction.

In the 1980s, his notable starring TV roles included: Alexander the Great's close companion Hephaistion in the PBS miniseries The Search for Alexander the Great ; serial killer Neville Heath in an episode of the murder-trial reenactment series Ladykillers ( 1981 ); naive Scot turned powerful South African magnate Jamie MacGregor in the miniseries Master of the Game ( 1984 ); Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland's Story ( 1984 ); romantic lead Clarence Dandridge in the period miniseries Louisiana ( 1984 ) opposite Margot Kidder ; and protagonist Victor Geary in the stylish and clever Oxbridge Blues ( 1984 ), written by Frederic Raphael, directed by James Cellan Jones, and co-starring Amanda Redman, Rosalyn Landor, and Malcolm Stoddard.

For some years after the destruction of the island it remained deserted, but was re-occupied in 1774 by new settlers from the opposite coast of Peloponnese after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca that allowed the Russian free movement of ships in the Mediterranean and the recreation of the powerful commercial fleet by using the Russian flag to establish trade routes with neighboring countries.

At this point, Godzilla and Kiryu face off in a head to head battle where each combatant sizes up its opposite and exchange powerful blows that also devastate the cityscape around them.

Browder joked for years that " Mitchell's super power is getting his ass whipped ", which was the opposite of the powerful warrior Teal ' c.

With the arrival of sound, his presence and powerful voice became an asset and he went on to memorable roles in The Green Pastures ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( the 1939 MGM version, opposite Mickey Rooney ), The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 — perhaps his best-known film appearance — as the genie ), The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ), and Sahara ( 1943 ).

While pointing out the meager attestation and apparent belatedness of the miracles ' appearance in the trajectory of the canon, Crossan takes the opposite view, that Jesus was known during earliest Christianity as a powerful magician, which was " a very problematic and controversial phenomenon not only for his enemies but even for his friends ," who began washing miracles out of the tradition early on.

The huge build-up in the Navy sphereheaded by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz with his Riskflotte ( Risk Fleet ) concept of creating a sufficiently powerful fleet that Britain could never risk war with, had the opposite effect from the one intended on Britain.

The braking system was too powerful and caused the wheels to rub flat in spots, which led to noisy running, the opposite of the design goal.

* " You could join a fraternity of rich and powerful men — in Bizarro World ," a fictional world in the DC Universe where everything is opposite to Earth ; for example, Bizarro bonds lose money, which is considered a good thing there.

For instance, a violation of one ’ s personal space might have more positive valence if committed by a wealthy, powerful, physically appealing member of the opposite sex than a filthy, poor, homeless person with foul breath.

For a binomial involving subtraction, the theorem can be applied as long as the opposite of the second term is used.

Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, in which she argues that many young women in the United States and beyond are replicating male chauvinism and older misogynist stereotypes.

In such a frame, the observed is zero and alone is treated as the acceleration: so in the equation of motion, the term is " reincarnated on the force side of the equation ( with opposite signs, of course ) as the centrifugal force mω < sup > 2 </ sup > r in the radial equation ": The " reincarnation " on the force side of the equation is necessary because, without this force term, observers in the rotating frame would find they could not predict the motion correctly.

Derrida states that deconstruction is not a critique in the Kantian sense. This is because Kant defines the term critique as the opposite of dogmatism.

The term is sometimes used in the opposite meaning, Alfonso Moure says in this respect:

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).

In other words, the term is not pejorative, but the opposite.

The term Polish notation is sometimes taken ( as the opposite of infix notation ) to also include Polish postfix notation, or Reverse Polish notation, in which the operator is placed after the operands.

Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope.

The opposite term is referential opaqueness.

William Boyd coined the term zemblanity to mean somewhat the opposite of serendipity: " making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries occurring by design ".

The opposite term of " case-sensitive " is " case-insensitive ".

As an adjective, the term sometimes has a meaning opposite its usual connotations.

The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.

( Many sources, including those concerned with bryophytes, use the term ' monoecious ' for this situation and ' dioecious ' for the opposite.

Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: " An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself ... ( an Expressionist rejects ) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures ... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.

One could interpret these maps as a flat wheel or disc, but most were intended to represent only a portion of the sphere-known world-just as a modern flat map of Europe or Africa is intended to represent only part of the planet " and " In the ancient and medieval world the term " antipodes " may mean lands on the opposite side on the planet or, more commonly, " human inhabitants " of lands on the other side of the planet.

The term antonym ( and the related antonymy ) has also been commonly used as a term that is synonymous with opposite ; however, the term also has other more restricted meanings.

In this article, the usage of Lyons ( 1963, 1977 ) and Cruse ( 1986, 2004 ) will be followed where antonym is restricted to gradable opposites and opposite is used as the general term referring to any of the subtypes discussed below.

Conversely, some words appear to be a prefixed form of an opposite, but the opposite term does not exist, such as inept, which appears to be in-+ * ept ; such a word is known as an unpaired word.