DICTOMETER

POSITION

(position, orientar, posición, positura, cargo, plassering, posisjon, situasjon, sted, still-, stilling)

1. Synonyms:
   • Position
   • Place
   Definitions:
   • the particular portion of space occupied by something
   Examples:
   • He put the lamp back in its place
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Military position
   • Position
   Definitions:
   • a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Position
   • View
   • Perspective
   Definitions:
   • a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
   Examples:
   • Consider what follows from the positivist view
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Position
   • Posture
   • Attitude
   Definitions:
   • the arrangement of the body and its limbs
   Examples:
   • He assumed an attitude of surrender
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Status
   • Position
   Definitions:
   • the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Position
   • Post
   • Berth
   • Office
   • Spot
   • Billet
   • Place
   • Situation
   Definitions:
   • a job in an organization
   Examples:
   • He occupied a post in the treasury
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Position
   • Spatial relation
   Definitions:
   • the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
   Examples:
   • The position of the hands on the clock
   • He specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Position
   Definitions:
   • the appropriate or customary location
   Examples:
   • The cars were in position
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Position
   Definitions:
   • (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
   Examples:
   • What position does he play?
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Placement
    • Location
    • Locating
    • Position
    • Positioning
    • Emplacement
    Definitions:
    • the act of putting something in a certain place
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Situation
    • Position
    Definitions:
    • a condition or position in which you find yourself
    Examples:
    • The unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils
    • Found herself in a very fortunate situation
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Position
    • Stance
    • Posture
    Definitions:
    • a rationalized mental attitude
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Side
    • Position
    Definitions:
    • an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
    Examples:
    • There are two sides to every question
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Place
    • Position
    Definitions:
    • an item on a list or in a sequence
    Examples:
    • In the second place
    • Moved from third to fifth position
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Stead
    • Position
    • Place
    • Lieu
    Definitions:
    • the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
    Examples:
    • Can you go in my stead?
    • Took his place
    • In lieu of
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Position
    Definitions:
    • the act of positing
    • an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Position
   Definitions:
   • cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Put
   • Set
   • Place
   • Pose
   • Position
   • Lay
   Definitions:
   • put into a certain place or abstract location
   Examples:
   • Put your things here
   • Set the tray down
   • Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
   • Place emphasis on a certain point