How To Use Opposable In A Sentence
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On the forefeet, digits 1 and 2 are opposable to 3-5.
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The evolution of the hand with an opposable thumb is an early "inbuilt" tool, in combination with erect posture.
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It is clear, however, that a right which is not opposable by the possessor of the right against the person from whom the right is due is not a right in the full legal sense.
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Many animals, primates and others, also have some kind of opposable thumb or toe.
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the thumb is opposable to the forefinger
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But common experience proves that, in impressionable persons, the activity of nerves and imagination stimulated by works of art has the possessive and unopposable force of a dream, and controls the physical organism, sometimes with quite inaesthetic consequences.
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Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
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That's what they used to call the opposable thumb.
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Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
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Their hands had only three digits: two fingers and an opposable thumb.
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But a dog, clutched by the neck from the back, can never be a match for two men, gifted with the intelligence and deftness of men, each of them two-handed with four fingers and an opposable thumb to each hand.
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Their feet are not syndactylous, and the first toe of their hind feet is partially opposable.
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But common experience proves that, in impressionable persons, the activity of nerves and imagination stimulated by works of art has the possessive and unopposable force of a dream, and controls the physical organism, sometimes with quite inaesthetic consequences.
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Death by mutated animals with opposable thumbs -- Earth A.D., or "After Disaster," is a future Earth inhabited by intelligent, mutated animals and what's left of the Statue of Liberty -- and a lone human.
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But you, who have opened the books and who share my awful confidence -- you know him for what he is, brother to you and the dust, a cosmic joke, a sport of chemistry, a garmented beast that arose out of the ruck of screaming beastliness by virtue and accident of two opposable great toes.
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They have an opposable hallux on their hind feet, and their pelage is soft, thick, and wooly.
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An opposable thumb is generally seen as a defining characteristic of primates, but in spider monkeys it is greatly reduced or entirely absent.
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Or werst kase it has opposable fumbs and kin git me gushy food.
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A panda with a fully opposable thumb that is lacking in its nearest relatives is hard to explain via evolution.
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But you, who have opened the books and who share my awful confidence -- you know him for what he is, brother to you and the dust, a cosmic joke, a sport of chemistry, a garmented beast that arose out of the ruck of screaming beastliness by virtue and accident of two opposable great toes.
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Digits 1 and 2 on the forefeet are opposable to digits 3-5, and the hindfoot has a well-developed hallux.
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I think it has something to do with opposable thumbs!
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The hands looked almost normal, with four fingers and an opposable thumb.
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They have an opposable hallux on their hind feet, and their pelage is soft, thick, and wooly.
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The eyes are usually very small, the feet are plantigrade and have five digits, and neither the hallux or pollex is opposable.
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\par The unicorn Ancestors were willing enough to be bred into a race that would have some of the strengths, such as opposable thumbs, of their former enemies.
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Just keep in mind Elmo doesn't have opposable thumbs.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: (Witch)Crafting the Perfect Halloween Get-Up: A Primer.
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The first 2 digits of their forefeet are opposable to the other three in the more arboreal species.
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Without opposable thumbs, I have no hope of managing such a tiny piece of cardboard.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Our opposable thumbs and big brains gave us the tools to dominate the planet, but wisdom comes more slowly than physical hardware.
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These were the occurrence of an opposable big toe (when this was present at all), the great development of the fourth toe, the reduction and partial syndactylism of the second and third toes, and in some cases the regression of the nails.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
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In consequence of the proportions and mobility of the thumb, it is what is termed "opposable"; in other words, its extremity can, with the greatest ease, be brought into contact with the extremities of any of the fingers; a property upon which the possibility of our carrying into effect the conceptions of the mind so largely depends.
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
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Another important trait that apes share with man and other primates is the opposable thumb.
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In other words, our ancestral rodents did not merely evolve gradually until they emerged as bipeds with opposable thumbs.
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The eyes are usually very small, the feet are plantigrade and have five digits, and neither the hallux or pollex is opposable.
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This was because opposable thumbs or not, buttons would forever be the bane of his life.
