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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

"opposite"

Does here "opposite" imply that the slides and drawings were projected, for example, on two opposite walls of a gallery room?

"The eighty slides were shown in sequence opposite a display of the artist’s anatomical drawings"
  

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It suggests something like that. However opposite can, in some contexts, mean something like along with, beside, together with . If this is the intended meaning here it would suggest that the exhibition was designed to allow people to compare and contrast the slides and the drawings, perhaps to obtain a deeper understanding of the artist and his or her work.

— Blue Jay

  • It suggests something like that.
  • However opposite can, in some contexts, mean something like along with, beside, together with .
  • If this is the intended meaning here it would suggest that the exhibition was designed to allow people to compare and contrast the slides and the drawings, perhaps to obtain a deeper understanding of the artist and his or her work.
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It suggests something like that. However opposite can, in some contexts, mean something like along with, beside, together with. If this is the intended meaning here it would suggest that the exhibition was designed to allow people to compare and contrast the slides and the drawings, perhaps to obtain a deeper understanding of the artist and his or her work.
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red apple Does here "opposite" imply that the slides and drawings were projected, for example, on two opposite walls of a gallery room?"The eighty slides were shown in sequence opposite a display of the artist’s anatomical drawings"
My interpretation is that the artist's anatomical drawings were displayed on one wall, say, the east wall, and the slides were pr
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