Definition of position

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Position (n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position..

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Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp..
Countermovement :: Countermovement () A movement in opposition to another.
Up :: Up (adv.) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied..
Echelon :: Echelon (v. i.) To take position in echelon.
Wranglership :: Wranglership (n.) The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England..
Galactin :: Galactin (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose..
Resupinate :: Resupinate (a.) Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants..
Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..
Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank..
Go :: Go (v. i.) To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come..
Mastery :: Mastery (n.) The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge..
Sorites :: Sorites (n.) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition.
Pessimism :: Pessimism (n.) A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation..
Cis- :: Cis- () A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side..
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition..
Distribution :: Distribution (n.) Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
Penta- :: Penta- () Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively..
Cromlech :: Cromlech (n.) A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries..
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