jump to corresponding sense entry
position
noun
1 position
The particular portion of space occupied by something.
synonym: place.
Roget 514:
supposition,
assumption,
assumed position,
postulation,
condition,
presupposition,
hypothesis,
blue sky hypothesis,
postulate,
postulatum [Lat.],
theory;
thesis,
theorem;
data;
proposition,
position;
proposal
etc.
(plan)
626;
presumption
etc.
(belief)
484;
divination.
conjecture;
guess,
guesswork,
speculation;
rough guess,
shot,
shot in the dark [Coll.];
conjecturality†;
surmise,
suspicion,
sneaking suspicion;
estimate,
approximation
(nearness)
197.
inkling,
suggestion,
hint,
intimation,
notion,
impression;
bare supposition,
vague supposition,
loose supposition,
loose suggestion.
association of ideas,
(analogy)
514.1;
metonym [Gramm.],
metonymy [Gramm.],
simile
(metaphor)
521.
conceit,
idea,
thought;
original idea,
invention
(imagination)
515.
... show more
Roget 873:
distinction,
mark,
name,
figure;
repute,
reputation;
good repute,
high repute;
note,
notability,
notoriety,
eclat,
the bubble reputation"
[As You Like It],
vogue,
celebrity;
fame,
famousness;
renown;
popularity,
aura popularis [Lat.];
approbation
etc.
931;
credit,
succes d'estime [Fr.],
prestige,
talk of the town;
name to conjure with.
glory,
honor;
luster
etc.
(light)
420;
illustriousness
etc.
adj..
account,
regard,
respect;
reputableness
etc.
adj.†;
respectability
etc.
(probity)
939;
good name,
good report;
fair name.
dignity;
stateliness
etc.
adj.;
solemnity,
grandeur,
splendor,
nobility,
majesty,
sublimity.
rank,
standing,
brevet rank,
precedence,
pas,
station,
place,
status;
position,
position in society;
order,
degree,
baccalaureate,
locus standi [Lat.],
caste,
condition.
greatness
etc.
adj.;
eminence;
height
etc.
206;
importance
etc.
642;
preeminence,
supereminence;
high mightiness,
primacy;
top of the ladder,
top of the tree.
elevation;
ascent
etc.
305;
superaltation†,
exaltation;
dignification†,
aggrandizement.
dedication,
consecration,
enthronement,
canonization,
celebration,
enshrinement,
glorification.
hero,
man of mark,
great card,
celebrity,
worthy,
lion,
rara avis [Lat.],
notability,
somebody;
classman†;
man of rank
etc.
(nobleman)
875;
pillar of the state,
pillar of the church,
pillar of the community.
chief
etc.
(master)
745;
first fiddle
etc.
(proficient)
700;
cynosure,
mirror;
flower,
pink,
pearl;
paragon
etc.
(perfection)
650;
choice and master spirits of the age;
elite;
star,
sun,
constellation,
galaxy.
ornament,
honor,
feather in one's cap,
halo,
aureole,
nimbus;
halo of glory,
blaze of glory,
blushing honors;
laurels
etc.
(trophy)
733.
memory,
posthumous fame,
niche in the temple of fame;
immortality,
immortal name;
magni nominis umbra [Lat.]
[Lucan].
... show more
Roget 535:
affirmance,
affirmation;
statement,
allegation,
assertion,
predication,
declaration,
word,
averment;
confirmation.
asseveration,
adjuration,
swearing,
oath,
affidavit;
deposition
etc.
(record)
551;
avouchment;
assurance;
protest,
protestation;
profession;
acknowledgment
etc.
(assent)
488;
legal pledge,
pronouncement;
solemn averment,
solemn avowal,
solemn declaration.
remark,
observation;
position
etc.
(proposition)
514,
saying,
dictum,
sentence,
ipse dixit [Lat.].
emphasis;
weight;
dogmatism
etc.
(certainty)
474;
dogmatics
etc.
887.
... show more
Roget 737b:
politics;
political science;
candidacy,
campaign,
campaigning,
electioneering;
partisanship,
ideology,
factionalism.
election,
poll,
ballot,
vote,
referendum,
recall,
initiative,
voice,
suffrage,
plumper,
cumulative vote,
plebiscitum [Lat.],
plebiscite,
vox populi;
electioneering;
voting
etc.
v.;
elective franchise;
straight ticket [U.S.];
opinion poll,
popularity poll.
issue;
opinion,
stand,
position;
program,
platform;
party line.
[ideologies]
democracy,
republicanism;
communism,
statism,
state socialism;
socialism;
conservatism,
toryism;
liberalism,
whigism;
theocracy;
constitutional monarchy.
[political parties]
party
etc.
712;
[U.S: Political parties list],
Democratic Party,
Republican Party,
Socialist Party;
Communist Party;
[U.S. defunct parties: list],
Federalist Party,
Bull Moose Party,
Abolitionist Party;
[Germany: list],
Christian Democratic Party,
Social Democratic Party;
National Socialist Worker's Party;
[Germany, 1930-1945],
Nazi Party;
[Great Britain:list],
Liberal Party,
Labor Party,
Conservative Party.
ticket,
slate.
[person active in politics]
politician
activist;
[specific politicians: list],
candidate,
aspirant,
hopeful,
office-seeker,
front-runner,
dark horse,
long shot,
shoo-in;
supporter,
backer,
political worker,
campaign worker;
lobbyist,
contributor;
party hack,
ward heeler;
regional candidate,
favorite son;
running mate,
stalking horse;
perpetual candidate,
political animal.
political contribution,
campaign contribution;
political action committee,
PAC.
political district,
electoral division,
electoral district,
bailiwick.
electorate,
constituents.
get-out-the-vote campaign,
political education.
negative campaigning,
dirty politics,
smear campaign.
[unsuccessful candidate]
also-ran,
loser;
has-been.
[successful candidate]
office holder,
official,
occupant of a position;
public servant,
incumbent;
winner.
... show more
Dutch: plaats, plek, standplaats
Polish: pozycja, lokalizacja, usytuowanie, lokacja, umiejscowienie, położenie
2 position
A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons.
synonym: military position.
Polish: pozycja, punkt, stanowisko
3 position
A way of regarding situations or topics etc..
synonyms: perspective, view.
Dutch: beeld
4 position
The arrangement of the body and its limbs.
synonyms: attitude, posture.
Roget 8:
circumstance,
situation,
phase,
position,
posture,
attitude,
place,
point;
terms;
regime;
footing,
standing,
status.
occasion,
juncture,
conjunctive;
contingency
etc.
(event)
151.
predicament;
emergence,
emergency;
exigency,
crisis,
pinch,
pass,
push;
occurrence;
turning point.
bearings,
how the land lies.
surroundings,
context,
environment
232;
location
184.
contingency,
dependence
(uncertainty)
475;
causation
153,
attribution
155.
... show more
Dutch: houding, pose, positie, stand
Polish: układ ciała, pozycja, poza
5 position
The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society:
— Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life.
synonym: status.
Roget 71:
term,
rank,
station,
stage,
step;
degree
etc.
26;
scale,
remove,
grade,
link,
peg,
round of the ladder,
status,
position,
place,
point,
mark,
pas,
period,
pitch;
stand,
standing;
footing,
range.
... show more
Dutch: aanzien, status, positie
Polish: status, pozycja, status społeczny
6 position
A job in an organization.
synonyms: berth, billet, office, place, post, situation, spot.
Roget 183:
situation,
position,
locality,
locale,
status,
latitude and longitude;
footing,
standing,
standpoint,
post;
stage;
aspect,
attitude,
posture,
pose.
environment,
surroundings
(location)
184;
circumjacence
etc.
227†.
place,
site,
station,
seat,
venue,
whereabouts;
ground;
bearings
etc.
(direction)
278;
spot
etc.
(limited space)
182.
topography,
geography,
chorography†;
map
etc.
554.
... show more
Dutch: standplaats
Polish: stołek, posterunek, stolec, stanowisko, funkcja
7 position
The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated:
— The position of the hands on the clock.
synonym: spatial relation.
Dutch: ligging, positie, situatie, stand
Polish: usytuowanie, położenie
8 position
The appropriate or customary location.
9 position
in team sports The role assigned to an individual player.
Polish: pozycja
10 position
11 position
A condition or position in which you find yourself:
— The unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils.
synonym: situation.
Dutch: positie
12 position
13 position
An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute.
synonym: side.
Polish: stanowisko
14 position
An item on a list or in a sequence:
— Moved from third to fifth position.
synonym: place.
15 position
The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
synonyms: lieu, place, stead.
16 position
The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom.
verb
1 position
Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation.
2 position
Put into a certain place or abstract location.
synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set.
is a specific kind of: displace, move.
is a broader term that covers: enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in | docket | cock | postpose | prepose | step | put back, replace | stratify | plant | intersperse | nestle, snuggle | pile | arrange, set up | lay over, superimpose, superpose | superpose | park | ensconce, settle | dispose | emplace | emplace | ship | underlay | trench | pigeonhole | shelve | jar | repose | sign | middle | parallelize | butt | recess | reposition | throw, thrust | tee, tee up | rack up | coffin | bed | appose | place down, put down, set down | seed, sow | misplace | juxtapose | set down | bottle | bucket | barrel | ground | pillow, rest | upend | seat, sit, sit down | seat | lay, put down, repose | place upright, stand, stand up | recline | plant, set | instal, install, put in, set up | deposit, fix, posit, situate | ladle | poise | lean | clap | rest | perch | load | cram | set | siphon | seat | positionv1 | glycerolise, glycerolize | space | marshal | settle, settle down | throw | imbricate ... show more.
see also: communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across | apply, put on | array, lay out, range, set out | discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload | post, put up | assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together | erect, put up, raise, rear, set up | debark, disembark, set down | bring down, land, put down | gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand | rig, set up | ensnare, entrap, frame, set up | defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table | knock back, put back, set back ... show more.
derivation: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positionn10, positioning | set | positioner, rotary actuator | arrangement, placement | blank space, place, space | place, positionn1 | setting | place, spot, topographic point.
Dutch: zetten, neerzetten, brengen, plaatsen, stellen
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
debug info: 0.0545