(v. i.) A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appears that the transcriptional activation of the rearranged epo gene in IW32 cells has been mediated by a translocation event which has served to bring the epo gene into close juxtaposition to this transcriptionally active gene.
(2) Although HSV antigens and LC were simultaneously detected within corneal epithelium, LC were not observed in anatomic juxtaposition to HSV antigens, even after reinoculation of infected corneas with HSV on day 14 following the primary infection.
(3) This nucleotide homology extends both to the size and juxtaposition of exons.
(4) The excisive recombination reaction of bacteriophage lambda involves a specific and efficient juxtaposition of two distant higher order protein-DNA complexes on the chromosome of Escherichia coli.
(5) A recurrent theme in all such debates is a juxtaposition of European countries' treatment of the hijab with their attitude towards homosexuality.
(6) The close juxtaposition and homology of the MW and LW genes on the X chromosome is thought to underlie the high frequency of colour vision defects in man and the presence in many individuals of extra copies of the MW gene.
(7) Ofcom said that under the code broadcasters must take into account the scheduling of ads to "avoid unsuitable juxtapositions" between commercials and programmes, especially those that could distress or offend viewers.
(8) Because transcriptional activity is often associated with hypomethylation, we have examined the methylation status of the gamma-globin genes and the truncated psi beta gene on the HPFH chromosome to determine whether juxtaposition of this erythroid-specific region results in a generalized hypomethylation of the globin gene region upstream of the deletion breakpoint.
(9) These spinal tumors all appeared to arise in juxtaposition to the posterolateral sulcus and dorsal sensory roots.
(10) The juxtaposition of Freud and Collingwood suggests that the methods of philosophy and analysis are more alike than the particular problems they try to solve.
(11) During a pre-exocytotic stage, chromaffin granules are found in juxtaposition to the plasma membrane and separated from it by an electron dense space 25--27 A in width.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine whether fibrinolysis resulting from activation of the clotting cascade in juxtaposition to endothelial cells of the central nervous system (CNS) microvasculature is important for development of clinical signs of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in recipient Lewis rats.
(13) This unreliability was probably due to their short superficial course and their juxtaposition to the aorta and the pulmonary artery.
(14) In the course of surgery to close the septal defect, she was found to have a right-sided juxtaposition of the appendages.
(15) Juxtaposition of the atrial appendages (JAA) is an uncommon anomaly of the heart that is frequently associated with other cardiac abnormalities, such as transposition of the great arteries and tricuspid atresia.
(16) In contrast, there were very few AFC in juxtaposition to antigen-free MM in the follicular area or the antigen-laden marginal zone macrophages.
(17) Transcription units differing in polarity and fiber frequency can occur in immediate juxtaposition.
(18) Others manifested both cribriform and basaloid patterns in juxtaposition.
(19) By this time, however, odontogenic crest and presumptive molar epithelium have already reached juxtaposition and molar primordia are fully competent.
(20) The juxtaposition of the GPC functional morphology indexes of the stomach juice acidity and blood gastrin concentration implies the necessity to reevaluate the significance of the latter as an adequate index of the GPC function.
Oxymoron
Definition:
(n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
Example Sentences:
(1) My father, Peter Self, who was, oxymoronically, a “political scientist”, wrote numerous books, which, while often technical in character, were nonetheless informed by his own rather gentle and utopian socialism.
(2) A cinema hall in August … less the start of a sentence than an oxymoron, I know.
(3) Airport expansion would be a non-starter, as would any more money on carbon capture and storage, and the oxymoronic idea of "clean coal".
(4) If Scottish self-esteem, a phrase that makes one psychoanalyst I know reach for the term "oxymoron", is reflected in our statistics for liver disease, drug-addiction, obesity, young male suicide and domestic abuse, we're not in great shape.
(5) So for me, Muslim feminist, Christian feminist, Jewish feminist, it's all oxymoronic.
(6) The headline “ Rivalry is now part of higher education’s DNA ” (5 August) is an oxymoron.
(7) To most people, the phrase "recreational maths" is an oxymoron.
(8) For a start, it suggests trust is not so much a trump card in Eastleigh as an irrelevance: unfairly, the very idea of a trustworthy MP is fast becoming an oxymoron.
(9) In February 2015 the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, called Oliver an “oxymoron” because he was an “English comedian”, after Oliver accused of him being thin-skinned.
(10) It seems oxymoronic to prescribe yet more war as the solution.
(11) That's what the UK's Foresight report argued a few months ago, calling for the oxymoronic "sustainable intensification".
(12) That such an oxymoron can exist is a credit to the legal gymnastics achieved by the Department of Justice, which is effectively allowing federal drug laws to be routinely flouted without consequence, so long as the law-breaking is done within a state-regulated and licensed system.
(13) While the term feels like an oxymoron, it’s used more often within the energy industry to refer to an expensive technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS) that once promised to keep coal power a dominant source of electricity for decades to come.
(14) But when I posted a blog inviting readers to suggest questions for you, someone [Newtownian1] said I should put it to you that green growth is an oxymoron.
(15) But by creating the ultimate oxymoron of diet food – something you eat to lose weight – it squared a seemingly impossible circle.
(16) If Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has sat in as many conferences on the "future of news" as I have recently (and I hope for her sake she hasn't), then she might have hesitated before defining what kind of "press" would be affected by the oxymoronic draft royal charter on self-regulation of the press .
(17) The manifesto message for councils is not promising; a “national framework” for devolution is oxymoronic, while the social care plans show little or no awareness of council function or finance.
(18) Everyone knows it’s wrong, but nobody does anything about it – just as they know that British complicity in torture and rendition from 2001 onwards was also wrong, but will again be endorsed by a boneless establishment, which believes that institutional law-breaking is an oxymoron.
(19) Just pablum about “shareholder capitalism” (an oxymoron if there ever was one) and “enlightened corporations” that are oh-so-kind enough to give working-class Americans jobs.
(20) But the language of paradox, oxymoron and subtle contradiction – the language of children – does better.