position

position
01. What [position] does your daughter play on her baseball team?
02. Many people say that playing goalie is the most difficult [position] in hockey.
03. I must have slept in a strange [position] last night because I woke up with a really sore neck.
04. The [position] of the ship carrying the illegal immigrants is not yet known, but authorities believe it is near the coast of Washington State.
05. The [position] of the oil tanker in trouble off the coast of Alaska was reported to the Coast Guard by a passing plane.
06. Working as an artist's model is hard work, especially when you are posed in an uncomfortable [position] for long periods of time.
07. We [positioned] the plants on our balcony so that they would hang over the railings.
08. Sarah Brown once observed that only God is in a [position] to look down on anyone.
09. Certain parrots sleep hanging upside down, a [position] which helps to prevent recognition by predators.
10. The young couple tried a different sexual [position] every night for the first couple of weeks after they got married.
11. In El Salvador, males are expected to rise from a seated [position] whenever a woman enters a room.
12. In some universities in Ukraine, there are as many as 20 applicants per available [position].
13. Tobacco leaves are graded by factors such as color, size, and [position] on the stem because lower leaves have less nicotine.
14. Someone once joked that the most dangerous [position] in which to sleep is with your feet on your office desk.
15. In October of 1973, Egypt and Syria launched attacks on Israeli [positions], signaling the start of the Yom Kippur war.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • position — [ pozisjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1265; lat. positio, de ponere « poser » I ♦ 1 ♦ Manière dont une chose, une personne est posée, placée, située; lieu où elle est placée. ⇒ disposition, emplacement. Position horizontale, verticale, inclinée (⇒ inclinaison) .… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Position — Po*si tion, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. ?) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v.,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Position — may refer to:* A location in a coordinate system, usually in two or more dimensions; the science of position and its generalizations is topology * Body position (proprioception), the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body …   Wikipedia

  • position — [pə zish′ən] n. [MFr < L positio < positus, pp. of ponere, to place < * posinere < po , away (< IE base * apo > L ab, from, away) + sinere, to put, lay: see SITE] 1. the act of positing, or placing 2. a positing of a… …   English World dictionary

  • Position — (lat. positio ‚Lage, Stellung‘) bezeichnet: die Lage eines Punktes im Raum, siehe Koordinatensystem und Ortsbestimmung Soziale Position, den Status einer Person in sozialen Beziehungen Meinung, eine subjektive Ansicht bzw. einen Standpunkt den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • position — Position. s. f. Terme de Geographie. Situation. La position des lieux n est pas juste, n est pas bien marquée dans cette carte. C est aussi un terme de Philosophie & de Mathematique, & alors il se dit de l establissement d un principe. De la… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • position — 1 Position, stand, attitude denote a more or less fixed mental point of view or way of regarding something. Position and stand both imply reference to a question at issue or to a matter about which there is difference of opinion. Position,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • position — [n1] physical place area, bearings, district, environment, fix, geography, ground, locale, locality, location, locus, point, post, reference, region, scene, seat, setting, site, situation, space, spot, stand, station, surroundings, topography,… …   New thesaurus

  • Position — Sf std. (16. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. positio ( ōnis), Abstraktum zu l. pōnere (positum) setzen, stellen, legen . Adjektiv: positionell.    Ebenso nndl. positie, ne. position, nfrz. position, nschw. position, nnorw. posisjon. ✎ Leser, E.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • position — verb. • Uniformed constables had been positioned to re direct traffic J. Wainwright, 1979. The use of position as a verb, meaning ‘to place in position’ has met with some criticism, usually from those who object to any verb made relatively… …   Modern English usage

  • position — (n.) late 14c., as a term in logic and philosophy, from O.Fr. posicion, from L. positionem (nom. positio) act or fact of placing, position, affirmation, from posit , pp. stem of ponere put, place, from PIE *po s(i)nere, from *apo off, away (see… …   Etymology dictionary

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