- Types Of Speech
- You can use position as a noun or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Position
- A 3 syllables noun and 8 letters with the letters i, n, o, p, s, and t, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters it. Position starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, po, pos, posi, posit, and the ending characters are n, on, ion, tion, ition, ..
- Definition
- The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- Origin/Roots
- French
- Compound Words
- A compound word, position has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are posit, and ion.
- School Grade
- Position is set as a grade six word that starts with p, ends with n, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Position in Pig Latin is said as "ositionpay or ositionpway".
- Unigram
- p | o | s | i | t | i | o | n
- Bigram
- po | os | si | it | ti | io | on
- Trigram
- pos | osi | sit | iti | tio | ion
- Quadrigram
- posi | osit | siti | itio | tion
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- the act of positing;
an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom - a job in an organization;
"he occupied a post in the treasury" - the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
"can you go in my stead?";
"took his place";
"in lieu of" - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
"what position does he play?" - the act of putting something in a certain place or location
- 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" - position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
"he assumed an attitude of surrender" - a rationalized mental attitude
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
"consider what follows from the positivist view" - an item on a list or in a sequence;
"in the second place";
"moved from third to fifth position" - an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
"there are two sides to every question" - the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;
"he put the lamp back in its place" - the appropriate or customary location;
"the cars were in position" - a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- 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" - 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"
- Verb Examples
- put into a certain place or abstract location;
"Put your things here";
"Set the tray down";
"Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children";
"Place emphasis on a certain point" - cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Synonym | Definition |
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Abode | housing that someone is living in "he built a modest dwelling near the pond" "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" |
Address | social skill |
Affect | the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion |
Affectation | a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
Affectedness | a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
Affectivity | |
Affirmance | |
Affirmation | a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand |
Aide Memoire | |
Allegation | statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove |
View all cognitive synonyms for Position
Anagram | Definition |
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Position | the act of positing an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom |
View English words with the unique letters used in position. Words With The Letters Inopst
Word | Definition |
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Posit | (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning |
Postulate | (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning |
Word | Definition |
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Assumption | the act of taking possession of or power over something "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba" "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934" "he acquired all the company''s assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the compan |
Position Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With N
- Spelled With / Contains Letters