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Adding a noun takes 30 seconds but it comes with a big responsibility. Once you add the noun, you own it on www.oppo-site.com.
You must take on board oppo-inions of others before linking to its opposite. If its opposite hasn't been added yet, you must add (and own) that too.
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The Science of Opposites
The science of opposites where we aim to explore the opposite of every noun in the English language.
Nouns don't tend to have opposites - words like knife, pen, house, car and phone are somehow more complete when you find their logical partner.
Register and play your part in solving one of language's great mysteries. If we all do 1 noun each, we'll have this finished in no time.
How do I find the opposite of a noun?
The opposite of a noun is derived using the following method:
1. Describe the purpose of the noun.
Please note that a purpose is very different from a description. A description describes what something is. A purpose describes the reason for its existence - what it does and a why.
2. Decide what the opposite purpose might be (e.g. if the purpose of a knife is 'to cut', then the opposite purpose might be 'to stick things back together')
3. Decide what noun may have this new, opposite purpose.
There may be a need to 'invent' a new thing to fulfill this purpose (see Hallucinated nouns).
It may also be the case that the opposite purpose is the same as the original purpose (e.g. to move from A to B becomes to move from B to A) which will result in the opposite noun being the same as the original (see Prime opposites).
