Position
[pə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [pə'zɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom.
(noun.) a job in an organization; 'he occupied a post in the treasury'.
(noun.) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; 'what position does he play?'.
(noun.) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; 'the position of the hands on the clock'; 'he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage'.
(noun.) the arrangement of the body and its limbs; 'he assumed an attitude of surrender'.
(noun.) a rationalized mental attitude.
(noun.) a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; 'consider what follows from the positivist view'.
(noun.) the particular portion of space occupied by something; 'he put the lamp back in its place'.
(noun.) the appropriate or customary location; 'the cars were in position'.
(verb.) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation.
Edited by Arnold--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
(n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
(n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
(n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
(n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
(v. t.) To indicate the position of; to place.
Edited by Georgina
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Station, situation, spot, place, locality, post.[2]. Attitude, posture, state, condition.[3]. Proposition, principle, thesis, dictum, assertion, doctrine.
Typist: Rowland
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SITUATION]
Editor: Rodney
Definition
n. place situation: attitude: a place taken or to be taken by troops: state of affairs: the ground taken in argument or in a dispute: principle laid down: place in society: method of finding the value of an unknown quantity by assuming one or more values (single when one is assumed; double when two).—v.t. Posit (poz′it) to place in right position or relation: to lay down as something true or granted.—adj. Posi′tional.—Strategic position a position taken up by troops to check the movements of an enemy.
Inputed by Harvey
Examples
- You have now a--hum--a great position to support. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Hence, indeed, his position as a senator was not a little useful to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He reviewed his position as a Milton manufacturer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thence he pushed on to Waynesboro', where he found the enemy in force in an intrenched position, under General Early. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On a hasty review of his unfortunate position, Mr. Snagsby can't say either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As long as we could hold our position the enemy was limited in supplies of food, men and munitions of war to what they had on hand. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His father was Sillerton Jackson's uncle, his mother a Pennilow of Boston; on each side there was wealth and position, and mutual suitability. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It resulted in securing more advanced positions for all our troops where they were fully covered from the fire of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And, first of all, we must choose our positions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As they passed into other rooms these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The disc is divided into eight or ten compartments, in each one of which the same figures are repeated, though the positions of one or more of them are changed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- These he deposited on the premises in such positions that she should see them as if by accident. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Terence