Position Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

position n
1. the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: place]
2. a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons [syn: military position}]
3. a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: view, perspective]
4. position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: posture, attitude]
5. 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"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn: status]
6. a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation]
7. 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" [syn: spatial relation]
8. the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position"
9. (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"
10. the act of putting something in a certain place or location [syn: placement, location, locating, positioning, emplacement] 1
11. 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" [syn: situation] 1
12. an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: place]

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* All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. - La Bruyere

* He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli


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