How do you use Oppositely in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Oppositely meaning
In an opposite manner.
Using Oppositely
- The main meaning on this page is: In an opposite manner.
- In the example corpus, oppositely often appears in combinations such as: oppositely charged, the oppositely, aligned oppositely.
Context around Oppositely
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oppositely
- In this selection, "oppositely" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aligned, angled, narrow, charged, directed and wound stand out and add context to how "oppositely" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the oppositely charged protons and another angled oppositely for the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oppositely" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oppositely
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Energy from the explosion is beamed into two narrow, oppositely directed jets. (12 words)
The oppositely-directed return currents flow through the ground plane directly beneath the trace. (14 words)
The negative sign arises in the potential term since the proton and electron are oppositely charged. (16 words)
There are also clippers for each ear, which help you to get a clean clip while easily gliding up the sideburn and around the ear—one angled for the left side, and another angled oppositely for the right side. (39 words)
Rather, each species of ion is surrounded by ions of the opposite charge, and the spacing between it and each of the oppositely charged ions near it, is the same for all surrounding atoms of the same type. (38 words)
To sum to zero, the force of the water must point oppositely to the sum of the centrifugal and gravity forces, which means the surface of the water must adjust so its normal points in this direction. (37 words)
Example sentences (19)
There are also clippers for each ear, which help you to get a clean clip while easily gliding up the sideburn and around the ear—one angled for the left side, and another angled oppositely for the right side.
Oppositely, not pruning back to the collar leaves a stub that dies back, opening the way for disease.
He also criticized partisan policies according which the same plan or resume can be judged quite oppositely.
A fast-moving sail would ionize this hydrogen by accelerating the electrons in one direction and the oppositely charged protons in the other direction.
Energy from the explosion is beamed into two narrow, oppositely directed jets.
For an ensemble of particles, if we expect the particles to be aligned, the results are all 1. If we expect them to be aligned oppositely, the results are all −1.
If initially there are lots of windings of strings around compact dimensions, space could only expand to macroscopic sizes once these windings are eliminated, which requires oppositely wound strings to find each other and annihilate.
In conventional methods the stationary phase is an ion exchange resin that carries charged functional groups that interact with oppositely charged groups of the compound to retain.
In the BN compound analogue of graphite, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), the positively charged boron and negatively charged nitrogen atoms in each plane lie adjacent to the oppositely charged atom in the next plane.
Rather, each species of ion is surrounded by ions of the opposite charge, and the spacing between it and each of the oppositely charged ions near it, is the same for all surrounding atoms of the same type.
The leaves emerge oppositely, each pair at right angles to the previous one (called decussate) or whorled.
The negative sign arises in the potential term since the proton and electron are oppositely charged.
The oppositely charged ions typically a great many of them are then attracted to each other to form a solid.
The oppositely-directed return currents flow through the ground plane directly beneath the trace.
The thin shared base and asymmetric collector emitter doping are what differentiates a bipolar transistor from two separate and oppositely biased diodes connected in series.
The two oppositely charged ions attract one another, and the ionic bond is the electrostatic force of attraction between them.
Time-like or space-like separations correspond to oppositely oriented rectangles, one type considered to have rectangles of negative area.
To sum to zero, the force of the water must point oppositely to the sum of the centrifugal and gravity forces, which means the surface of the water must adjust so its normal points in this direction.
When is anti-parallel to (i.e. aligned oppositely), the interaction energy is negative, and in this case main.
Common combinations with oppositely
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: