an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
an incompatibility of dates or events | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
a disagreement or argument about something important | the territory occupied by a nation |
opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | a state of depression or agitation |
a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |