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Position   /pəzˈɪʃən/   Listen
Position

noun
1.
The particular portion of space occupied by something.  Synonym: place.
2.
A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons.  Synonym: military position.
3.
A way of regarding situations or topics etc..  Synonyms: perspective, view.
4.
The arrangement of the body and its limbs.  Synonyms: attitude, posture.
5.
The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society.  Synonym: status.  "The novel attained the status of a classic" , "Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
6.
A job in an organization.  Synonyms: berth, billet, office, place, post, situation, spot.
7.
The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated.  Synonym: spatial relation.  "He specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"
8.
The appropriate or customary location.
9.
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player.
10.
The act of putting something in a certain place.  Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning.
11.
A condition or position in which you find yourself.  Synonym: situation.  "Found herself in a very fortunate situation"
12.
A rationalized mental attitude.  Synonyms: posture, stance.
13.
An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute.  Synonym: side.
14.
An item on a list or in a sequence.  Synonym: place.  "Moved from third to fifth position"
15.
The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.  Synonyms: lieu, place, stead.  "Took his place" , "In lieu of"
16.
The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom.
verb
1.
Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation.
2.
Put into a certain place or abstract location.  Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set.  "Set the tray down" , "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" , "Place emphasis on a certain point"



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"Position" Quotes from Famous Books



... Goat Island, Saxon obediently sitting still, he took in the sail, and, when the boat had drifted to a position to suit him, he dropped a tiny anchor. He got out the fish lines and showed Saxon how to bait her hooks with salted minnows. Then they dropped the lines to bottom, where they vibrated in the swift ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... little penetration to see how these circumstances react upon the village girls. The frolicsome and giddy appear to enjoy themselves much as the boys do, but the position must be cruel to those of a serious tendency. To be treated with disrespect and be made the subjects of rough wit as they go about is only the more acute part of their difficulty. One may suppose that at home they find little appreciation ...
— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
... like this, introduces the flint stone as in some way connected with the early creative forces of nature, recurs at other localities on the American continent very remote from the home of the Algonkins. In the calendar of the Aztecs the day and god Tecpatl, the Flint-Stone, held a prominent position. According to their myths such a stone fell from heaven at the beginning of things and broke into sixteen hundred pieces, each of which became a god. The Hun-pic-tok, Eight Thousand Flints, of the Mayas, and the Toh of the Kiches, point to the ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... capacities. Such a state of affairs seems remarkable when one recalls how persistently the Teuton flaunts his vaunted skill in organisation, scientific management and method before the world at large. As a matter of fact it is only when one secures a position behind the scenes in Germany, to come into close contact with the Hun as he really is, when he has been stripped of the mask and veneer which he assumes for parade and to impress his visitors, that the hollowness of the Teuton pretensions is laid bare ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney
... way into the garden, and turned round, beckoning my master to join her. In that position I saw her face plainly, and I knew it for the face of the young widow lady who was visiting at the house. She was pointed out to me by the head-gardener when she first arrived, for the purpose of warning me that ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins


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