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.

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Mug

To hold liquid

To move liquid into one's body

Prime: 
No
Noun Type: 
Concrete
Existence: 
Real
Opposites identified
opposite: 
Bladder
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ameldon's picture

When Laurie, a 20-something

When Laurie, a 20-something saleswoman in Tampa, Fla., got pulled over this summer for a minor traffic violation, she (and the police officer) discovered that her driver's license had expired. She was arrested for that misdemeanor, was released and dutifully got her license renewed the next day.Her case is hardly fodder for the crime pages. But since this is the Internet age, Laurie got her mug shot, name and arrest data splashed on TampaBay.com,mcpd certification the website of the Pulitzer-winning St. Petersburg Times. Mug Shots, a prominent fixture on the site's home page since it debuted earlier this year, posts every arrest photo from the four Tampa Bay-area counties, complete with the dazed scowls, bad hair and, for folks like Laurie, the humiliation of appearing alongside alleged murderers and car thieves. "This is completely horrible," a+ examssays Laurie, who asked TIME not to print her last name to spare her further public shaming. "What if my boss sees it?"(10 Questions for N.Y. Times Editor Bill Keller)Chances are, he already has. Mug-shot galleries are increasingly popular features on newspaper websites, which are on a crusade for more page views and the advertising revenue that accompanies additional eyeballs. While big dailies like New York's Newsday and the Chicago Tribune have caught on to the trend, mug-shot mania is especially prevalent in Florida, where liberal public-records laws make it easier to obtain these photos. "It's a huge traffic driver for us," says Roger Simmons, digital-news manager for the Orlando Sentinel,mcp training where mug shots garner about 2.5 million page views a month, 6% of the site's total. The Palm Beach Post estimates its online police blotter, which streams its own ads, drew half of the site's 45 million page views in May.Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1921604,00.html#ixzz0dP...

sarah.'s picture

lol! good, good. makes sense

lol! good, good. makes sense :]
so does a STRAINER, or COLLENDER :] ....i think thats how you spell it...

Stuart B's picture

I like this - I'd have

I like this - I'd have thought of Mug as a potential prime opposite (like a big spoon) but bladder is a fantastic opposite.

There could be another opposite based on the purpose 'to hold solids' - in which case Toilet would be valid!

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