(a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
(n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.
(n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(2) The odds are that Zuckerberg will one day face an opponent that can't be bought."
(3) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(4) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
(5) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(6) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(7) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(8) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(9) His teacher was the charismatic Father Matta el-Meskin (Matthew the Poor), later to become an opponent.
(10) We have to improve our playing style and beat our opponents more easily.” Van Gaal was also careful to provide an exact statement on the England full-back Luke Shaw, who suffered an ankle injury against Arsenal.
(11) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(12) The typical balance of power on Capitol Hill over surveillance is such that opponents of renewing Section 702 face strong political headwinds.
(13) Around the same time Kadyrov said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oligarch who became an opponent of Putin and now resides in Switzerland after spending a decade in prison, was now his “personal enemy”.
(14) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(16) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
(17) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(18) Despite mounting criticism during the Duma campaign, both supporters and opponents acknowledge his perceived achievement in restoring Russia's standing in the world following Boris Yeltsin's chaotic 1990s decade.
(19) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
(20) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
Sledge
Definition:
(n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
(n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
(n.) A sleigh.
(n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
(v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
(v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The need for additional postoperative analgesia was seen earliest in the patients who received a knee prosthesis of the sledge type (P less than 0.05).
(2) The mechanical efficiencies (ME) of pure positive and pure negative work as well as of stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercise were investigated with a special sledge apparatus.
(3) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
(4) With a sledge cryomicrotome, we sectioned 273 lumbar facet joints in 38 adult cadavers and correlated the anatomic appearance of the joints with CT and magnetic resonance (MR) images.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Sister Sledge perform We Are Family It was fun, but challenging.
(6) Take in the views and then hire a sledge for the journey down the Schlittelweg.
(7) Half of the 27 sledge dogs at the station were found to carry coagulase-positive staphylococci but this did not appear to be of pathological significance to their human handlers.
(8) A consecutive prospective series of 102 knees (90 patients) had unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (St. Georg "sledge") between 1973 and 1979 for gonarthrosis, Stages 2-4.
(9) A child once asked me – and you know that kids ask difficult questions – he asked me, ‘Father, what did God do before he created the world?’” The audience, which included Franklin, Sister Sledge, Mark Wahlberg, the comedian Jim Gaffigan and other warm-up acts, laughed, and the pope continued with a smile.
(10) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
(11) First experiences in allo-arthroplastics of the knee with 82 Guepar- and 28 sledge protheses are reported.
(12) Detailed electromyographic (EMG) analysis of primarily triceps brachii muscle was carried out on subjects who performed 100 repeated and exhaustive stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercises on a special sledge apparatus incorporating a force plate.
(13) Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole.
(14) The fatigue contractions were performed on submaximal levels but the before-after comparison included also maximal "drop jumps" on the sledge as well as falls on to the floor.
(15) 'Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend': Nick Kyrgios sledges Stan Wawrinka Read more On a changeover during the second set of their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Kyrgios told the world No5: “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend, sorry to tell you that mate.” Wawrinka ignored the insult and withdrew in the third set with a back injury.
(16) The presented scheme of tissue treatment involving standard sledge microtome, acetone, thermostat heat provides 25-35 micron sections.
(17) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
(18) Over this time, I have completed six expeditions on the Arctic sea ice, sledge-hauling more than 1,500 miles and spending more than 223 days in temperatures well below zero.
(19) He told a story about a day when he was 12 years old, soon after he had lost a leg to bone cancer, when his father took him out sledging.
(20) The ad, which cost about £1m to make, features a young boy and what appears to be a real penguin playing together, going sledging, visiting the park and bouncing on the trampoline to the tune of John Lennon’s Real Love sung by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell, who was used by Burberry in its online Christmas film last year.