Timeline for Verb to refer to objects that are orderly positioned side by side?
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 16:11 | comment | added | terdon | No no, I DV because you do not answer the question which was asking for a word that specifies things being placed in an orderly fashion. Apposite just implies closeness. If I am wrong (which I may well be) and the word also implies neatness, please add a definition supporting that and I will be more than happy to retract my DV. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 15:56 | comment | added | placeholder | No, actually, there are two key components, proximity/adjacency and alignment/neatness. You DV'd me for suggesting only half the solution. Did you DV aligned for also only getting half the solution? I suspect there is another dynamic going on here, which frankly doesn't bother me. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 15:20 | comment | added | terdon | Well, yes, exactly. You can place things side by side without their being aligned. In any case, the OP is asking for "[...] side by side", so the proximity is already covered and it is the alignment that he's after. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | placeholder | from OED "place (something) side by side with or close to something else.". While the use of apposed in the OP sentence would be redundant ("side by side" would be repeated), the use of aligned does not imply a nearness "as the planets aligned". The use of the word stacked indicates intimate contact. | |
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 13:58 | comment | added | terdon | -1. Apposed does not carry the connotation of orderly, just near. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 13:49 | history | answered | placeholder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |