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Что (кто) такое 'gainst - определение
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
'Gainst; Gainst; Against (band); Against (disambiguation); Againſt
'Gainst
·prep A contraction of Against.
'gainst
¦ preposition literary short for against.
against
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: In addition to the uses shown below, 'against' is used in phrasal verbs such as 'come up against', 'guard against', and 'hold against'.
1.
If one thing is leaning or pressing against another, it is touching it.
She leaned against him...
On a table pushed against a wall there were bottles of beer and wine.
...the rain beating against the window panes.
PREP
2.
If you are against something such as a plan, policy, or system, you think it is wrong, bad, or stupid.
Taxes are unpopular-it is understandable that voters are against them...
Joan was very much against commencing drug treatment.
...a march to protest against job losses.
PREP
•
Against is also an adverb.
The vote for the suspension of the party was 283 in favour with 29 against.
ADV: ADV after v
3.
If you compete against someone in a game, you try to beat them.
The tour will include games against the Australian Barbarians...
PREP
4.
If you take action against someone or something, you try to harm them.
Security forces are still using violence against opponents of the government.
PREP
5.
If you take action against a possible future event, you try to prevent it.
...the fight against crime...
I must warn you against raising your hopes.
PREP
6.
If you do something against someone's wishes, advice, or orders, you do not do what they want you to do or tell you to do.
He discharged himself from hospital against the advice of doctors.
PREP
7.
If you do something in order to protect yourself against something unpleasant or harmful, you do something which will make its effects on you less serious if it happens.
A business needs insurance against risks such as fire and flood...
PREP
8.
If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them.
Have you got something against women, Les?...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
9.
If something is against the law or against the rules, there is a law or a rule which says that you must not do it.
It is against the law to detain you against your will for any length of time...
PREP
10.
If you are moving against a current, tide, or wind, you are moving in the opposite direction to it.
...swimming upstream against the current...
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PREP
11.
If something happens or is considered against a particular background of events, it is considered in relation to those events, because those events are relevant to it.
The profits rise was achieved against a backdrop of falling metal prices.
PREP
12.
If something is measured or valued against something else, it is measured or valued by comparing it with the other thing.
Our policy has to be judged against a clear test: will it improve the standard of education?...
The US dollar is down against most foreign currencies today.
PREP
13.
If you discuss a particular set of facts or figures as against another set, you are comparing or contrasting the two sets of facts or figures.
Over 50% of divorced men regretted their divorce, as against 25% of women.
PHRASE
14.
The odds against something happening are the chances or odds that it will not happen.
The odds against him surviving are incredible.
PREP: n PREP
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Against is also an adverb.
What were the odds against?
ADV: n ADV
15.
up against: see up
against the clock: see clock
Википедия
Against
Against may refer to:
- Against (album), 1998 album by Brazilian metal band Sepultura
- "Against" (song) the title track song from the Sepultura album
- Against (American band), 2006 American thrash band
- Against (Australian band), Australian hardcore punk band
Примеры употребления для 'gainst
1. Close relatives of government officials have also been victims of assassinations, abductions and roadside bombs. gainst fellow Sunnis seen as collaborating with the U.S. and the Iraqi government.
2. MPCC President Prabha Rau confirmed that the show cause notice was served to Sawant by the party’s disciplinary action committee seeking his explanation on his comments made gainst Alva.
3. The consequence is that there is less a debate than a stand–off between two compelling yet seemingly paradoxical propositions÷ "The government is rebuilding the NHS through an unprecedented expansion in funding" versus "the government is destroying the NHS through an unprecedented process of marketisation, privatisation and commercialisation". A gainst this background, it is significant that the last time there was a comparable increase in spending on the NHS, in 1''1, the extra money went to pay for the costs of the internal market.