position in English dictionary

  • position

    Meanings and definitions of "position"

    • A place or location.
    • A post of employment; a job.
    • A status or rank.
    • An opinion, stand, or stance.
    • A posture.
    • (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
    • (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
    • To put into place.
    • noun
      A place or location.
    • noun
      A post of employment; a job.
    • noun
      A status or rank.
    • noun
      An opinion, stand, or stance.
    • noun
      A posture.
    • noun
      (team sports)
      A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
    • noun
      (finance)
      An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
    • noun
      (arithmetic)
      A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
    • noun
      (chess)
      The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
    • verb
      To put into place.
    • An interest in the market, either long or short, in the form of open contracts.
    • The ideal, unilateral solution to a dispute.
    • To put something in a position.
    • A rationalized mental attitude.
    • (military) encampment
    • (social) position
    • position (in a whole, i.e. body)
    • place (in relation to the whole)
    • A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and tendencies to act in certain ways.
    • place, location
    • status or rank
    • post of employment
    • stand
    • posture
    • place on a playing field
    • to put into place
    • noun
      an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"
    • noun
      an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question"
    • noun
      a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
    • noun
      a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
    • noun
      a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
    • noun
      a rationalized mental attitude
    • noun
      a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"
    • noun
      (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"
    • noun
      the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
    • noun
      the act of putting something in a certain place
    • noun
      the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position"
    • noun
      the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
    • noun
      the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"
    • noun
      the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
    • noun
      the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
    • 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"
    • verb
      cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
    • verb
      put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

    Synonyms of "position" in English dictionary

    occupation, office, status are the top synonyms of "position" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of position

    • position ( third-person singular simple present positions, present participle positioning, simple past and past participle positioned)
    • position ( plural  positions) (abbreviated as posish)
    • lm  liczba mnoga positions
    • position (plural positions) (abbreviated as posish)
    • position (third-person singular simple present positions, present participle positioning, simple past and past participle positioned)
  • Position

    Meanings and definitions of "position"

    • An option that allows the user to specify the location of an element on the screen.

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