in the face of
in the teeth of
witherward
counter
on
versus
contra-
contra
enantio-
dead against
inspite
in spite of
counterassertion
contrariant
adversive
withgo
opposedly
oppose
contradictory
anti
antisimoniac
opposingly
contrary to
make head against
notwithstanding
with
even though
antihistorical
gainst
for all
reprovingly
where
diametral
as much as
nevertheless
anti-antifeminist
react
au contraire
instead
rather
against
counter-
per contra
antibias
oppugnant
heretical
after
antagonistic
for
antagonym
antiexclusion
diametric
whereas
reverse
go against
spite
counterpremise
anticonsensus
contrary
despite that
counterweigh
anti-Nazi
antifreedom
antipode
answer
⠁⠛⠌
ferninst
protistan
fly in the face of
refudiate
dis-
agyen
antireal
despite
opposing
toe to toe
traverse
contrariness
antitheoretical
antagonize
antitotalitarian
albeit
antisubversion
antisubversive
anticompetitively
antagonise
when
countertendency
counteract
but for
even
unnational
counter
contrariant
adversive
contradictory
anti
antisimoniac
antihistorical
diametral
nevertheless
anti-antifeminist
antibias
oppugnant
heretical
antagonistic
antiexclusion
diametric
reverse
anticonsensus
anti-Nazi
antifreedom
antireal
opposing
antitheoretical
antitotalitarian
antisubversion
antisubversive
unnational
witherward
contra
opposedly
opposingly
reprovingly
counter
au contraire
instead
rather
per contra
contrary
toe to toe
anticompetitively
even
counterassertion
antagonym
counterpremise
antipode
protistan
contrariness
countertendency
withgo
oppose
make head against
react
go against
counterweigh
answer
counter
fly in the face of
refudiate
traverse
antagonize
antagonise
counteract
adj
adv
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
noun
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
prep
- Against; in opposition to.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
noun
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
verb
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
prefix
prep
adv
noun
- A deal to swap goods or services.
- A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- A contra dance.
verb
prefix
adj
verb
prep
- Against.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
- Having, owning.
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- In regard to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- In the employment of.
- In support of.
adv
prep
conj
- While on the contrary; although; whereas.
- In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
- In a position, case, etc. in which; if.
- In, at or to which place or situation.
- In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
adv
- In, at or to which.
- The place in, at or to which.
- What place.
- Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
- where are.
- In what situation.
noun
adv
prep
- In opposition to.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- In a contrary direction to.
- In competition with, versus.
- In front of; before (a background).
- Close to, alongside.
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- In exchange for.
- To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- As counterbalance to.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- As a charge on.
prefix
prep
- In spite of.
- In pursuit of, seeking.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- Behind.
- Next in importance or rank.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
- As a result of.
conj
- Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
adj
adv
prep
- Despite, in spite of.
- Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
- So (that), in order to
- On behalf of.
- Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- Because of.
- Over (a period of time).
- To be, or as being.
- Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- Supporting, in favour of.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In honor of; after.
- Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
particle
conj
noun
adj
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
verb
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The opposite of something.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
verb
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To make a reply or response to.
- To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
noun
abbrev
prep
verb
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adv
adj
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adj
conj
- Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
- At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
- At what time; at which time.
- During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
- Since; given the fact that; considering that.
intj
noun
pron
adv
- At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
- A circumstance or situation in which.
- The time at, on or during which.
- At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
- At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
prep
adj
adv
- in spite of; notwithstanding
- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- to the full extent
adj
- divisible by two
- being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
noun
adj
- equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
- symmetrically arranged
- occurring at fixed intervals
- of the score in a contest
verb
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