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obverse - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Facing or turned toward the observer.
- adjective Serving as a counterpart or complement.
- noun The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.
- noun The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides.
- noun Logic The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, in logic, the contranominal of the inverse of a proposition.
- Turned toward (one); facing: opposed to reverse, and applied in numismatics to that side of a coin or medal which bears the head or more important inscription or device.
- In botany, having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.
- noun In numismatics, the face or principal side of a coin or medal, as distinguished from the other side, called the reverse. See
numismatics , and cuts under maravedi, medallion, and merk. - noun Hence A second aspect of the same fact; a correlative proposition identically implying another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the
reverse . - noun Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
- adjective Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Turned or facingtoward theobserver . - adjective
Corresponding ;complementary . - noun The
heads side of acoin , or the side of amedal orbadge that has theprincipal design . - noun logic The
double negative of astatement e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
- noun the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin obversus, past participle of obvertere, to turn toward; see obvert.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin.
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Examples
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On the obverse is an image of eagles destroying a nest of snakes at the foot of a ruined tower, at the top of which is a nest of eaglets.
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On the obverse is a full-length representation of Liberty wearing long, flowing robes, seated on a rock, and head turned back to her right.
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On the obverse is a full-length representation of Liberty wearing long, flowing robes, seated on a rock, and head turned back to her right.
Liberty Seated Quarter, No Motto, No Drapery, 1838-1840 : Coin Guide 2009
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While its obverse is sharper than that of the Husak S-12, its strike and surface quality are not quite as impressive as the Husak S-12 1793 Liberty Cap. Even so, as it is so difficult to find 1793 Liberty Caps that grade Fine-15 or higher, this Very Fine grade Holmes S-12 is particularly appealing for a 1793 Liberty Cap and I would recommend it.
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The obverse is dominated by a left-facing somewhat determined portrait of a native American chief wearing a full-feathered war bonnet.
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The obverse is true of Vietnam, which over a longer period saw 9 million men in uniform, less than a third of the draft-eligible males in the pool, selected out largely on the basis of education or lack of it.
The Draft 1980
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The obverse is true of Vietnam, which over a longer period saw 9 million men in uniform, less than a third of the draft-eligible males in the pool, selected out largely on the basis of education or lack of it.
The Draft 1980
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The face we call the obverse is entirely occupied by the body of a fantastic quadruped, partly chiselled in slight relief, partly engraved.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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Longacre’s classical left-facing Liberty on the obverse is said to be modeled after an old Hellenistic sculpture, the Crouching Venus.
Liberty Head Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1849-1866 : Coin Guide 2009
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The left facing, wings outstretched in-flight eagle on the obverse is from Christian Gobrecht’s 1836 Liberty Seated obverse.
Related Words
synonyms (150)
Words with the same meaning
- adversative
- adverse
- adversive
- ally
- alter ego
- analogon
- analogue
- antagonistic
- anteriority
- anti
- antipathetic
- antipodal
- antipode
- antipodes
- antipole
- antithesis
- antithetic
- antonym
- antonymous
- associate
- at cross-purposes
- balancing
- bold front
- brave face
- brave front
- brother
- clashing
- close copy
- close match
- cognate
- companion
- compensating
- complement
- conflicting
- confronting
- congenator
- congener
- contra
- contradictory
- contradistinct
- contrapositive
- contrarious
- contrary
- contrasted
- converse
- coordinate
- correlate
- correlative
- correspondent
- counter
- counterbalance
- counterbalancing
- countercheck
- counterpart
- counterpoint
- counterpoise
- counterpoised
- counterpole
- counterterm
- countervailing
- dead against
- discordant
- discrepant
- display
- equivalent
- eyeball to eyeball
- eyeball-to-eyeball
- facade
- face
- facet
- facia
- facing
- fellow
- foil
- fore
- forefront
- foreground
- forehand
- foreland
- forepart
- forequarter
- foreside
- foreword
- front
- front elevation
- front man
- front matter
- front page
- front view
- frontage
- frontal
- frontier
- frontispiece
- head
- heading
- heads
- hostile
- image
- inconsistent
- inimical
- inverse
- kindred spirit
- lap
- like
- likeness
- mate
- near duplicate
- offset
- opposed
- opposing
- opposite
- opposite number
- opposite side
- oppositional
- oppositive
- oppugnant
- other face
- other side
- parallel
- pendant
- perverse
- picture
- polar
- polaric
- polarized
- preface
- prefix
- priority
- proscenium
- reciprocal
- repugnant
- reverse
- second self
- setoff
- similitude
- simulacrum
- sister
- soul mate
- squared off
- such
- suchlike
- tails
- tally
- the contrary
- the like of
- the likes of
- the other side
- twin
- vis-a-vis
- window dressing
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