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root((POS))
impose
1、 To establish or apply as a charge or penalty or in a forceful or harmful way.
2、 To take unfair advantage.
🌱After seeing her latest grades, her parents imposed new rules about how much time she had to spend on homework every night. 🌳The Latin imposui meant "put upon," and that meaning carried over into English in impose. A CEO may impose a new manager on one of the company's plants. A state may impose new taxes on luxury items or cigarettes, and the federal government sometimes imposes trade restrictions on another country to punish it. A polite apology might begin with "I hope I'm not imposing on you" （that is, "forcing my presence on you"）. And a self-imposed deadline is one that you decide to hold yourself to. juxtapose To place side by side.
🌱You won't notice the difference between the original and the copy unless you juxtapose them. 🌳Since juxta means "near" in Latin, it's easy to see how juxtapose was formed. Juxtaposing is generally done for examination or effect. Interior designers constantly make decisions about juxtaposing objects and colors for the best effect. Juxtaposing two video clips showing the different things that a politician said about the same subject at two different times can be an effective means of criticizing. The juxtaposition of two similar X-rays can help medical students distinguish between two conditions that may be hard to tell apart. And advertisements frequently juxtapose "before" and "after" images to show a thrilling transformation. transpose 1、 To change the position or order of （two things）.
2、 To move from one place or period to another.
🌱She rechecked the phone number and discovered that two digits had been transposed. 🌳Though transposing two digits can be disastrous, transposing two letters in a word often doesn't matter too much. （You can prboalby raed tihs setnence witohut too mcuh toruble.） Transposing two words or sounds—as in "Can I sew you to another sheet?"—has been a good source of humor over the years. Doctors sometimes discover that something in the body—a nerve, an organ, etc.—has been transposed, or moved away from its proper place. For musicians, transposing means changing the key of a piece; if you can do this at a moment's notice, you've been well trained. superimpose To put or place one thing over something else.
🌱Using transparent sheets, she superimposes territory boundaries on an outline of Africa, showing us how these changed in the late 19th and early 20th century. 🌳Superimposition was one of the magical effects employed by early filmmakers. Using "mirror shots," with semitransparent mirrors set at 45° angles to the scene, they would superimpose shadowy images of ghosts or scenes from a character's past onto scenes from the present. Superimposing your own ideas on something, such as a historical event, has to be done carefully, since your ideas may change whenever you learn something new about the event.
2、 To take unfair advantage.
🌱After seeing her latest grades, her parents imposed new rules about how much time she had to spend on homework every night. 🌳The Latin imposui meant "put upon," and that meaning carried over into English in impose. A CEO may impose a new manager on one of the company's plants. A state may impose new taxes on luxury items or cigarettes, and the federal government sometimes imposes trade restrictions on another country to punish it. A polite apology might begin with "I hope I'm not imposing on you" （that is, "forcing my presence on you"）. And a self-imposed deadline is one that you decide to hold yourself to. juxtapose To place side by side.
🌱You won't notice the difference between the original and the copy unless you juxtapose them. 🌳Since juxta means "near" in Latin, it's easy to see how juxtapose was formed. Juxtaposing is generally done for examination or effect. Interior designers constantly make decisions about juxtaposing objects and colors for the best effect. Juxtaposing two video clips showing the different things that a politician said about the same subject at two different times can be an effective means of criticizing. The juxtaposition of two similar X-rays can help medical students distinguish between two conditions that may be hard to tell apart. And advertisements frequently juxtapose "before" and "after" images to show a thrilling transformation. transpose 1、 To change the position or order of （two things）.
2、 To move from one place or period to another.
🌱She rechecked the phone number and discovered that two digits had been transposed. 🌳Though transposing two digits can be disastrous, transposing two letters in a word often doesn't matter too much. （You can prboalby raed tihs setnence witohut too mcuh toruble.） Transposing two words or sounds—as in "Can I sew you to another sheet?"—has been a good source of humor over the years. Doctors sometimes discover that something in the body—a nerve, an organ, etc.—has been transposed, or moved away from its proper place. For musicians, transposing means changing the key of a piece; if you can do this at a moment's notice, you've been well trained. superimpose To put or place one thing over something else.
🌱Using transparent sheets, she superimposes territory boundaries on an outline of Africa, showing us how these changed in the late 19th and early 20th century. 🌳Superimposition was one of the magical effects employed by early filmmakers. Using "mirror shots," with semitransparent mirrors set at 45° angles to the scene, they would superimpose shadowy images of ghosts or scenes from a character's past onto scenes from the present. Superimposing your own ideas on something, such as a historical event, has to be done carefully, since your ideas may change whenever you learn something new about the event.
POS comes from the Latin verb ponere, meaning "to put" or "to place." You expose film by "placing it out" in the light. You compose a song by "putting together" a series of notes. And you oppose locating a new prison in your town by "putting yourself against" it.🌸