Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions.
There are, moreover, in the life of any people a number of currents of thought running side by side, and sometimes in opposite directions.
Thus, in the question of individual immortality, two great forces drag human thought in opposite directions.
She had two propellers on the same axis, but revolving in opposite directions, one being on the central shaft and the other on a concentric tube.
Let it now be noted that if S be rotated, C and F will rotate in opposite directions and A will remain stationary.
The waving or double Catherine wheels, are two suns turning about the same axis in opposite directions.
The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.
The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.
He had also learnt from some of his informants, that there were currents running in opposite directions at different depths.
Hence it would appear that collateral currents, either in the same or in opposite directions, exert no permanent inducing power on each other, affecting their quantity or tension.
These rudders are arranged to work in unison, independently, or in opposite directions.
These flexible tip planes move simultaneously, but in opposite directions.
Wright uses two wooden propellers, in the rear of his biplane, revolving in opposite directions.
Half-lattice girder, a girder consisting of horizontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles.
Defn: Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
The untwisting of the rubber band causes the balls to roll inopposite directions in a circular path, and centrifugal force causes the balls to fly outward.
To the two rollers journaled in the standards are attached the ends of a strip of black cloth which is wound around both rollers in opposite directions, so as to about evenly divide the cloth between the rollers.
To the tube there should be adjusted other tubes (horizontal) in communication with it, which cross each other at right angles, and which are bent in opposite directions at their extremities.
Then with their hands they take hold of a stick and pull in opposite directions.
As a matter of fact one and the same stoma subserves two distinct faculties, and these exercise their pull at different times in opposite directions--first it subserves the pull of the liver and, during catharsis, that of the drug.
But if your expression "at once" means that in one and the same animal a single organ subserves the transport of matter in opposite directions, and if it is this which disturbs you, consider inspiration and expiration.
In all these[376] the active movements of the organs and therewith the passive movements of [their contained] matters may be seen taking place almost every second in opposite directions.
Deaf-mute natural signs: Place the hands near each other, palms downward, and move them over and apart, bringing the palms upward in opposite directions.
After this he bends the right hand downward, and repeatedly moves the outstretched forefinger and middle finger in opposite directions (in imitation of the motion of the legs in the act of walking).
A double track bridge, it should naturally have fallen under the combined pressure of trains moving simultaneously in opposite directions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposite directions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
