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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.

March, 2009

Fur

Submitted by Ian Wolf on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 21:40

To keep a land animal warm and act as a form camouflage.

Opposites identified

opposite:

Highlighter Snow

Train

Submitted by Stuart B on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 20:09

To get passengers from A to B.

Or, from B to A again.

A return train ticket is empirical evidence that prime opposites exist.

Opposites identified

opposite:

Train

Booze

Submitted by Stuart B on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 17:40

Inhibits your progress on any journey, usually meaning you take the longest possible route and spend hours lost and looking for landmarks or places that sell food.

Entails frequent periods of amnesia with large periods of time disappearing for no known reason.

Opposites identified

opposite:

Sat Nav

Submitted by Stuart B on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 17:38

A device that helps you find your way around by providing the shortest or fastest route to your destination. Provides constant updates to ensure you always know where you are.

Opposites identified

opposite:

Booze

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Bald Head

Submitted by Stuart B on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 17:31

Something that aspirational men don't want before the age of 30 because it stops them getting girlfriends.

Opposites identified

opposite:

Porsche

1 comment

Porsche

Submitted by Stuart B on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 17:29

An aspirational appendage that ambitious men aspire to before they are 30 years old, usually because it increases their chances of getting a girlfriend.

Opposites identified

opposite:

Bald Head

1 comment

Time

Submitted by fotoflex on Tue, 31/03/2009 - 12:39

Time makes things dirty. If you leave something alone, it will get dirty. If you use something, it will get dirty. If you clean something, etc., etc..

Opposites identified

opposite:

soap