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Definition: Juxtapose |
JuxtaposeVerb1. Place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Juxtapose \Jux`ta*pose"\, transitive verb. [Compare to Juxtaposit, Pose.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Comparison | Verb: compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side, juxtapose; (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance. |
Contiguity | Juxtapose; contact; join (unite); link (vinculum). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Juxtapose |
| English words defined with "juxtapose": Juxtaposit. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Turkey | More than half of Turkey's population lives in urban areas that juxtapose Western lifestyles with traditional-style mosques and markets. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Juxtapose" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 61.11% of the time. "Juxtapose" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 61.11% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 38.89% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
juxtapose | 40 |
juxtapose magazine | 12 |
clothing juxtapose | 3 |
define juxtapose | 2 |
juxtapose texture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "juxtapose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë përbri, ballafaqoj (confront, contrast, match). (various references) | |
Arabic | وضع شيئا بجانب الآخر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съпоставям (collate, put together), поставям един до друг. (various references) | |
Chinese | 使并列 (juxtaposed). (various references) | |
Czech | postavit vedle sebe, klást proti sebe. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیش هم گذاشتن , پهلوی هم گذاشتن . (various references) | |
French | juxtaposer. (various references) | |
German | nebeneinanderstellen (place side by side, put next to each other). (various references) | |
Greek | αντιπαραθέτω (contrast). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשים בסמוך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mellérendel (coordinate), egymás mellé helyez (to bracket, to juxtapose). (various references) | |
Italian | giustapporre, affiancare (help, place side by side, put beside), accostare (abut, accost, approach, draw near, go near). (various references) | |
Manx | cur faggys dy cheilley (juxtaposition). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uxtaposejay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | justapor (overlap). (various references) | |
Romanian | juxtapune, alãtura (adjoin, annex, approach, collate, compare, confront, enclose, join). (various references) | |
Russian | сопоставлять (compare, confront, match), размещать рядом (juxtaposed, juxtaposing), помещать бок о бок. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | postaviti jedno uz drugo. (various references) | |
Spanish | yuxtaponer (adjoin). (various references) | |
Swedish | placera vid sidan, placera sida vid sida, placera intill varandra. (various references) | |
Turkish | yanyana koymak (collocate), sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collate, collocate, compile, concatenate, line up, Marshal, put in order, range, string), dizmek (align, Aline, arrange in a row, draw up, Marshal, range, rank, set, set in type, set out, set up in type, string). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розташовувати поруч, зіставляти. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coniuncta, coniunctae, coniuncti, coniunctus, coniungantur, coniungat, coniungere, coniungeretur, coniungetis, coniungi, coniungit, coniungitis, coniungitur, coniunxerant, coniunxerunt, coniunximus, coniunxit, coniunxitque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "juxtapose": juxtaposed, juxtaposes. (additional references) | |
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"Juxtapose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: justapose, juxapose, juxtapoz, juxtopose, juxxtapose, juztapose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "juxtapose" (pronounced ju'kstupō"z) |
| 4 | -u p ō" z | depose, oppose, presuppose, propose, suppose. |
| 3 | -p ō" z | compose, decompose, dispose, expose, impose, interpose, overexpose, pose, pows, predispose, reimpose, repose, superimpose, transpose. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-j-o-p-s-t-u-x" | |
-3 letters: auspex, expats, sapote, sexpot, taupes. | |
-4 letters: autos, estop, expat, expos, japes, jatos, jaups, jotas, joust, jupes, jutes, paseo, paste, pates, pause, paxes, peats, pesto, poets, pouts, poxes, psoae, pujas, sajou, saute, septa, setup, sexto, spate, spout, sputa, stoae, stope, stoup, stupa, stupe, tajes, tapes, taupe, taxes, taxus, tepas, texas, toeas, topes, touse. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-j-o-p-s-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: juxtaposed, juxtaposes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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