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Results for: "position"

Translating from English to Catalan

Translations:

position — place, location
→ posició f
→ càrrec
→ ubicació f
position — post of employment
→ posició
position — opinion, stand or stance
→ posició

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (16)

1. the particular portion of space occupied by something;
- Example: "he put the lamp back in its place"
[syn: position, place]

2. a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons;
[syn: military position, position]

3. a way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
- Example: "consider what follows from the positivist view"
[syn: position, view, perspective]

4. the arrangement of the body and its limbs;
- Example: "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
[syn: position, posture, attitude]

5. the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
- Example: "he had the status of a minor"
- Example: "the novel attained the status of a classic"
- Example: "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
[syn: status, position]

6. a job in an organization;
- Example: "he occupied a post in the treasury"
[syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation]

7. the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
- Example: "the position of the hands on the clock"
- Example: "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"
[syn: position, spatial relation]

8. the appropriate or customary location;
- Example: "the cars were in position"

9. (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
- Example: "what position does he play?"

10. the act of putting something in a certain place;
[syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]

11. a condition or position in which you find yourself;
- Example: "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"
- Example: "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
[syn: situation, position]

12. a rationalized mental attitude;
[syn: position, stance, posture]

13. an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
- Example: "there are two sides to every question"
[syn: side, position]

14. an item on a list or in a sequence;
- Example: "in the second place"
- Example: "moved from third to fifth position"
[syn: place, position]

15. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
- Example: "can you go in my stead?"
- Example: "took his place"
- Example: "in lieu of"
[syn: stead, position, place, lieu]

16. the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom;


VERB (2)

1. cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation;

2. put into a certain place or abstract location;
- Example: "Put your things here"
- Example: "Set the tray down"
- Example: "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"
- Example: "Place emphasis on a certain point"
[syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay]