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n. Grammar A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, Copley and the painter in The painter Copley was born in Boston.

n. Grammar The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

n. A placing side by side or next to each other.

n. Biology The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.

n. A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

n. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

n. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.

n. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.

n. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.

n. Appositio

n. The act of adding; application; accretion.

n. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

n. The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.

n. The act of adding to or together; a setting to; application; a placing together; juxtaposition.

n. In grammar: The relation to a noun (or pronoun) of another noun, or in some cases of an adjective or a clause, that is added to it by way of explanation or characterization.

n. The relation of two or more nouns (or a noun and pronoun) in the same construction, under the above conditions.

n. . In rhetoric, the addition of a parallel word or phrase by way of explanation or illustration of another.

A public disputation or examination: now used only as a name of Speech Hay in St. Paul's School, London.

n. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

n. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material

n. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

""Choirs" is so obviously in apposition with "boughs" in the line above ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") that I wonder how anyone could think to take it otherwise than "I am now an old man who not so very long ago was much like a blossoming tree in whose boughs birds warbled sweetly.""

modification    limiting    qualifying    ontogeny    development    ontogenesis    maturation    growing    growth   

growth by apposition   

application    accretion    relation   

osculation    stead    case    after-image