opponent

opponent englannista suomeksi

1. opponentti

2. vastustaja, vastaehdokas

3. vastustava

0. Substantiivi

1. vastustaja

2. vastustaja, vastaväittäjä, opponentti examiner in a thesis defense

3. vastustaja, vastaehdokas opposing candidate

3. Verbi

opponent englanniksi

1. One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.

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2. One who opposes another physically (in a fight, sport, game, or competition).

3. 1720, (w), ''The (w) of (w)'', London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, “Observations on the Twenty-Third Book,” no. 39, p.(nbs)136,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004836009.0001.006

In the Chariot-Race ''Achilles'' is represented as being able to conquer every Opponent (..)

4. (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe) he slid his right hand down to his left, and with the full swing of the weapon struck his opponent on the left side of the head, who instantly measured his length upon the green sward.

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1958|author=Graham Greene|title=Our Man in Havana|location=New York|publisher=Pocket Books|year_published=1974|section=Part 5, Chapter 5, p. 196|url=https://archive.org/details/ourmaninhavana00grah

6. One who opposes another in words (in a dispute, argument or controversy).

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1777|author=Hannah More|title=Essays on Various Subjects|location=London|publisher=J. Wilkie and T. Cadell|chapter=Thoughts on Conversation|page=54|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004802373.0001.000

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1847|author=Charlotte Brontë|title=Jane Eyre|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm|chapter=4

9. One who is opposed or objects (to a policy, course of action or set of ideas).

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1652|author=Peter Heylin|title=Cosmographie|location=London|publisher=Henry Seile|section=Book 1, Part 20, p. 205|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43514.0001.001

11. (quote-text)|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/394/394-h/394-h.htm|chapter=1

12. The participant who opens an academic debate by putting forward objections to a theological or philosophical thesis.

13. (quote-book)|title=The Rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique|location=London|chapter=The maner of confutacion twoo waies considered|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15542.0001.001

14. (quote-book)|location=London|chapter=The Continvation of the chronicles of England from the yeare of our Lord 1576, to this present yeare 1586, &c.|page=1355|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68202.0001.001

15. {{quote-text|en|year=1679|author=William Penn|title=An Address to Protestants|location=London|section=Part 2, p. 77|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54098.0001.001

16. (quote-text)|title=Transnatural Philosophy|location=London|section=Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 276|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59250.0001.001

17. Opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

18. {{quote-book|en|year=1647|author=Francis Bland|title=The Souldiers March to Salvation|location=York|page=25|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28353.0001.001

19. (quote-text) of (w), Translated from the Greek by (w)|location=London|year_published=1760|section=Volume 4, Book 19, lines 524-525, p. 44|url=https://archive.org/details/odysseyofhomer04home

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1792|author=Thomas Holcroft|title=Anna St. Ives|location=London|publisher=Shepperson and Reynolds|section=Volume 4, Letter 64, p. 53|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004893876.0001.004

21. {{quote-text|en|year=1828|author=Stephen Drew|title=Principles of Self-Knowledge|location=London|publisher=Longman|section=Volume 2, Section 23, p. 24|url=https://archive.org/details/principlesselfk00drewgoog

22. Situated in front; opposite.

23. (RQ:Thomson Spring)

24. (inflection of)