Dictionary Entry
position
position is a 8-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
- 2noun
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
- 3noun
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
- 4noun
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
- 5noun
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
- 6transitive verb
To indicate the position of; to place.
- 7noun
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- 8noun
a job in an organization
"he occupied a post in the treasury"
- 9noun
the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
"can you go in my stead?"
"took his place"
- 10noun
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
"what position does he play?"
- 11noun
the act of putting something in a certain place
- 12noun
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"
- 13noun
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
"he assumed an attitude of surrender"
- 14noun
a rationalized mental attitude
- 15noun
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
"consider what follows from the positivist view"
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- 16noun
an item on a list or in a sequence
"in the second place"
"moved from third to fifth position"
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- 17noun
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
"there are two sides to every question"
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- 18noun
the particular portion of space occupied by something
"he put the lamp back in its place"
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- 19noun
the appropriate or customary location
"the cars were in position"
- 20noun
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- 21noun
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"
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- 22noun
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"
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- 23verb
put into a certain place or abstract location
"Put your things here"
"Set the tray down"
- 24verb
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
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