noun

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A place or location.

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A post of employment; a job.

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A status or rank.

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Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.

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An opinion, stand or stance.

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My position on this issue is unchanged.

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A posture.

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Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.

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(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

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Stop running all over the field and play your position!

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An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution.

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A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.

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A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.

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The full state of a chess game at any given turn.

verb

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To put into place.

Examples of positions in a Sentence

In fact, she did see him in those positions, and in many more.

For it was proved that the medieval objects were found in such positions as to be necessarily contemporaneous with the foundation of the buildings, and that there was no superposition of periods of any date whatsoever.

Cynthia, while not as apprehensive as Edith had been, was obviously uncomfortable watching the climbers, especially from atop their precarious positions.

There are signs when Death is in her fortress.  I might be able to see the trees in their defensive positions from here.

Trees of all kinds sprang from the earth in the strangest positions.

In the time that she had known him, he had given no indication that he was impressed by money or people with important positions.

Many of the columns of the basilica have fallen, but the bases of all are in their original positions.

The application of photography to exact astronomy has created the necessity for new forms of apparatus to measure the relative positions of stellar and planetary images on photographic plates, and the relative positions of lines in photographic spectra.

The four players in a rink are known as the leader, second player, third player and skip (or driver, captain or director), and their positions, at least in matches, are unchangeable.

Nehemiah mentions a number of places on the eastern hill, including the tomb of David, the positions of which cannot with our present knowledge be fixed with any certainty.

They resigned their positions as councillors of state, and expressed their grievances personally to Margaret and by letter to the king in Madrid, asking for the dismissal of Granvelle.

His breadth of human sympathy led him to positions which the comparative study of religions has made familiar, but for which his age was unprepared.

The conception of work and of energy was originally derived from observation of purely mechanical phenomena, that is to say, phenomena in which the relative positions and motions of visible portions of matter were all that were taken into consideration.

The system consisting of the earth and the pound therefore possesses an amount of energy which depends on the relative positions of its two parts, on account of the latent physical connexion existing between them.

In most mechanical systems the working stresses acting between the parts can be determined when the relative positions of all the parts are known; and the energy which a system possesses in virtue of the relative positions of its parts, or its configuration, is classified as "potential energy," to distinguish it from energy of motion which we shall presently consider.

The emperor's chief work was guarding the frontiers and establishing military positions.

When a combination of signals has been received and the armatures have taken up their respective positions corresponding to the transmitting keyboard, certain mechanism in the receiver translates the position of the five armatures into a mechanical movement which lifts the paper tape against a type-wheel and prints the corresponding letter.

In 1892, on the Bristol Channel, he established communication between Lavernock Point and an island called Flat Holme in that channel by placing at these positions insulated single-wire circuits, earthed at both ends and laid as far as possible parallel to each other, the distance between them being 3.3 m.

Stations were established on various coast positions and ships supplied with the above-described apparatus to communicate with each other and with these stations.

This board is built up in sections of one or more operators' positions each.

The Church of Rome has discouraged these daring tactics in favour of the more cautious and probably more defensible positions of Aquinas.

He draws no inferences to theology or religion, whether friendly or hostile, from his new positions.

We have already spoken of Kant's peculiar philosophical positions.

In the biserial type the polyps on the two sides of the stem have primitively an alternating, zigzag arrangement; but, by a process of differential growth, quickened in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, &c., members of the stem, and retarded in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, &c., members, the polyps may assume secondarily positions opposite to one another on the two sides of the stem.

This was favoured by the development of the greater sees into positions of great administrative dignity, shortly to be called " patriarchal."

Sclerenchyma may bi formed later in various positions in the cortex, according to loca needs.

Oceanic islands have, as a rule, distinctive faunas and floras which resemble, but are not identical with, those of other islands in similar positions.

These were removed by Napoleon to Paris, but restored to their original positions after the peace of 1815.

In the intervening space (the object-box) are contained a number of fragments of brilliantly coloured glass, and as the tube is turned round its axis these fragments alter their positions and give rise to the various patterns.

In the 18th century the nobility of France and the nobility of Poland alike answered to the very strictest definition of nobility; but the political positions of the two were as broadly contrasted as the positions of any two classes of men could be.

The more celebrated and central thesis of the book - this finite universe, the best of all such that are possible - also restates positions of Augustine and Aquinas.

Old positions re-emerge from forgetfulness, and there is always a philosophy to back every " case."

Alembert's fame spread rapidly throughout Europe and procured for him more than one opportunity of quitting the comparative retirement in which he lived in Paris for more lucrative and prominent positions.

It is remarkable that these organs are found in similar positions in genera belonging to widely divergent families, while two genera of the same family may have them in different positions.

In this way German influence was enormously increased, and was represented by men of considerable capacity holding the highest official positions, such as Biren, Miinnich and Ostermann.

The blocks are angular, and rest irregularly one upon another, supported in all positions by the angles and edges of those beneath.

He constructed a map of as many as 576 of these lines, the principal of which he denoted by the letters of the alphabet from A to G; and by ascertaining their refractive indices he determined that their relative positions are constant, whether in spectra produced by the direct rays of the sun, or by the reflected light of the moon and planets.

The view of Warwick Castle, rising from the wooded banks of the river, is unsurpassed, and the positions of Stratford and Evesham are admirable.

Some took root in the strange lands, and, as later popular stories indicate, evidently reached high positions; others, retaining a more vivid tradition of the land of their fathers, cherished the ideal of a restored Jerusalem.

More recently men like Wollemberg, Ottolenghi and Luzzatti rose to high positions as ministers of state.

In the early middle ages the title prelate was applied to secular persons in high positions and thence it passed to persons having ecclesiastical authority.

The precise positions of the mountain ridges that traverse this central area are not properly known; their elevation is everywhere considerable, and many points are known to exceed 10,000 or 12,000 ft.

But Reid lacked the art to give due impressiveness to the important advance which his positions really contain.

After occupying the positions of procurator of the Jesuits at Rome and censor (calificador) of the Inquisition at Madrid, Acuna returned to South America, where he died, probably soon after 1675.

Sawfly larvae can at once be recognized by the curious positions they assume, and by the number of pro-legs, which exceeds ten.

Well-developed glandular invaginations occur in different positions on the foot in Pectinibranchia.

Disregarding the neutrality of the Germanic System, Napoleon sent a strong French corps to overrun Hanover, while he despatched General Gouvion St Cyr to occupy Taranto and other dominating positions in the south-east of the kingdom of Naples.

One tripod thus affords a firm base of support while the legs of the other tripod are brought forward to their new positions.

Pieces already detached were restored to their original positions, and those blackened by damp and dust were carefully cleaned.

For the latter purpose, Westinghouse gas-regulators are employed, the positions of the regulators being so chosen as to equalize the pressure throughout the service.

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