關於Opposite的意思和用法的提問

A: To take up → to occupy → three doors occupy (take the space) of the wall, except for one small space, which is occupied (taken up) by the table.

The writer uses "occupy" and "take up" in the sentence in order to avoid repetitions. They are synonyms.

A: So - you have learned
1) about the word Opposite!
and
2)what happens when there is a ton of extra hissing noises on an audio tape
that obscure
being able to hear the English words cleanly and correctly!

A: It means:
"The opposite of this is true for closely related languages that are almost counted as different dialects"

A: "Yet" is used the same as "but" would be here, as a coordinating conjunction.
"○○ your brilliant but intimidating mother."
The mother is intimidating, but also brilliant.

Hope that helps.

A: Yes, exactly! Even if that's not the way it is in reality (sometimes an ad can take up two pages) that's the image you're supposed to get when you think of "opposite".

A: That city is too far away to drive.
I live far from my parents.
That town is not far from mine. (it’s close to mine)
I like to travel far and wide.

A: @ZY_Yunbao It's a bit more blunt than saying "fictional", but yes

A: I'm opposite of my mom

A: The opposite of happy is sad.
He is very cheerful, while she is the complete opposite, being rather grumpy.

A: We are on opposite teams.

You did the opposite of what I expected.

"Good" is the opposite of "bad."

A: We don't say "to the opposite way/direction".

A: “When he saw me coming” in this sentence makes me think that your arrival is the thing that caused him to go in the opposite direction. “As he saw me coming” makes me think that you coming was not the cause of his action. Instead, you coming and him leaving happened at the same time but not with one causing the other to happen

A: I'm finding it difficult to think of examples that don't work with both. I think it may be safer to refer you to this page: http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/opposite

A: There isn't much of a difference and in most cases both will work. I can't at the moment think of an example where you would need to use specifiaclly one or the other

A: The opposite is something like this, light is the opposite of dark
Or
Soft is the opposite of hard
Against is more like:
Sally was against Sam's opinion.
Or
Max was going against his mothers commands.

A: I originally wrote "the waiter gets paid" but that's not the "opposite" so I deleted it haha.

You could say the waiter is charging you for your meal (but we wouldn't really say that).

I found this, maybe it's helpful to you :)

A: The opposite of "think poorly of somebody" is to "think highly of somebody".

A: Lasses. It's more popular in Northern England

A: If you mean "bright and shiny" or "smart" kind of brilliant, then you could say "dull"

A: I would say:
What's the opposite of a thin soup or a healthy diet?
What's the opposite of a thin broth or a strict diet?

It is common to talk about light foods, a light meal, heavy foods or a heavy meal.

Soup you would usually say it's thin or thick. You could also say it's very heavy, or very rich - if you meant that it has more calories, or it's more filling.

For diets, you might say that somebody is following a very strict diet, or a very healthy diet. (Of course, people disagree on what is actually healthy :) You probably would not describe a diet as light or heavy.

A: We don't say "lowest priority" as often as we say "it's not my highest priority". It's a couple more words but it's a more common phrase.

We also say "it's my top priority" for something that is needing to get done.

A: It is detrimental to your health.

A: I use dictionary.com; there's also Merriam-webster.

A: Maybe "become useless"?

A: No, It doesn't have a dangerous feeling. It's just maybe they really don't like being around people. Loner sounds like they don't have anyone they feel comfortable with and like being alone