position

position
Synonyms and related words:
Anschauung, Parthian shot, a priori principle, abode, address, affect, affectivity, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allocate, angle, angle of vision, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, appointment, apriorism, area, arrange, arrangement, aspect, assertion, asseveration, assign, assumed position, assumption, attitude, autarky, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, azimuth, basis, bearing, bearings, belief, bench mark, bent, berth, billet, bimetallism, blood, bracket, branch, cachet, capacity, case, caste, categorical proposition, category, celestial navigation, character, circumstance, circumstances, clan, class, climate of opinion, collocate, color, comment, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, condition, connection, consensus gentium, consequence, consideration, contention, crack, creed, data, dead reckoning, declaration, deploy, determine, dictum, dignity, disposal, dispose, disposition, district, division, duty, echelon, economic self-sufficiency, emotion, emotivity, emplace, emplacement, employment, engagement, enunciation, establish, estate, estimate, estimation, ethos, exclamation, exposure, expression, eye, face, feeling, feeling tone, first principles, fix, footing, foundation, frame of reference, framework, free enterprise, free trade, frontage, function, general belief, get a fix, gig, governmentalism, grade, greeting, ground, group, grouping, head, heading, hierarchy, high place, hole, home in on, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, idea, importance, impression, inclination, incumbency, install, interjection, ipse dixit, jam, job, judgment, kin, kudos, label, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, latitude and longitude, lay, leaning, lemma, level, lie, lieu, light, lights, line, line of position, locale, localism, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, lot, major premise, managed currency, manifesto, mental attitude, mental outlook, mention, mind, minor premise, modality, mode, moonlighting, mystique, navigate, noninterference, nonintervention, note, notion, nullification, observation, occupation, office, opening, opinion, order, orientation, outlook, part, party line, party principle, pass, personal judgment, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, pickle, pigeonhole, pilotage, pin down, pinpoint, place, placement, placing, planned economy, plight, point, point of view, policy, polity, popular belief, pose, position, position line, position paper, positive declaration, post, postulate, postulation, postulatum, posture, power structure, precedence, predicament, predicate, predication, premise, prestige, presumption, presupposition, prevailing belief, price supports, principle, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, propositional function, protection, protectionism, protest, protestation, province, psychology, public belief, public opinion, public policy, pump-priming, put, put in place, quality, question, race, radio bearing, rank, rate, rating, reaction, reference system, reflection, regard, region, relation, remark, respect, role, rubric, say, say-so, saying, second job, section, sectionalism, sentence, sentiment, sept, service, set, settle, side, sight, site, situate, situation, situs, slant, sphere, spot, stage, stance, stand, standing, standpoint, state, statement, station, stature, status, stead, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, subjoinder, suborder, sumption, supposal, system, tenure, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, thought, title, triangulate, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, universe, utterance, vacancy, view, viewpoint, vouch, way of thinking, where, whereabout, whereabouts, word, zero in on

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  • position — [ pozisjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1265; lat. positio, de ponere « poser » I ♦ 1 ♦ Manière dont une chose, une personne est posée, placée, située; lieu où elle est placée. ⇒ disposition, emplacement. Position horizontale, verticale, inclinée (⇒ inclinaison) .… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Position — Po*si tion, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. ?) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v.,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Position — may refer to:* A location in a coordinate system, usually in two or more dimensions; the science of position and its generalizations is topology * Body position (proprioception), the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body …   Wikipedia

  • position — [pə zish′ən] n. [MFr < L positio < positus, pp. of ponere, to place < * posinere < po , away (< IE base * apo > L ab, from, away) + sinere, to put, lay: see SITE] 1. the act of positing, or placing 2. a positing of a… …   English World dictionary

  • Position — (lat. positio ‚Lage, Stellung‘) bezeichnet: die Lage eines Punktes im Raum, siehe Koordinatensystem und Ortsbestimmung Soziale Position, den Status einer Person in sozialen Beziehungen Meinung, eine subjektive Ansicht bzw. einen Standpunkt den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • position — Position. s. f. Terme de Geographie. Situation. La position des lieux n est pas juste, n est pas bien marquée dans cette carte. C est aussi un terme de Philosophie & de Mathematique, & alors il se dit de l establissement d un principe. De la… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • position — 1 Position, stand, attitude denote a more or less fixed mental point of view or way of regarding something. Position and stand both imply reference to a question at issue or to a matter about which there is difference of opinion. Position,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • position — [n1] physical place area, bearings, district, environment, fix, geography, ground, locale, locality, location, locus, point, post, reference, region, scene, seat, setting, site, situation, space, spot, stand, station, surroundings, topography,… …   New thesaurus

  • Position — Sf std. (16. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. positio ( ōnis), Abstraktum zu l. pōnere (positum) setzen, stellen, legen . Adjektiv: positionell.    Ebenso nndl. positie, ne. position, nfrz. position, nschw. position, nnorw. posisjon. ✎ Leser, E.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • position — verb. • Uniformed constables had been positioned to re direct traffic J. Wainwright, 1979. The use of position as a verb, meaning ‘to place in position’ has met with some criticism, usually from those who object to any verb made relatively… …   Modern English usage

  • position — (n.) late 14c., as a term in logic and philosophy, from O.Fr. posicion, from L. positionem (nom. positio) act or fact of placing, position, affirmation, from posit , pp. stem of ponere put, place, from PIE *po s(i)nere, from *apo off, away (see… …   Etymology dictionary

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