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Synonyms of the word 
POSITION → ACTIVITY - ASSUMPTION - ATTITUDE - BERTH - BILLET - BUSINESS - CONDITION - DISPLACE - EMPLACEMENT - FUNCTION - ITEM - JOB - LAY - LIEU - LINE - LOCATING - LOCATION - MOVE - OCCUPATION - OFFICE - OPINION - ORIENTATION - PART - PERSPECTIVE - PLACE - PLACEMENT - POINT - POSE - POSITION - POSITIONING - POST - POSTURE - PUT - RELATION - ROLE - SET - SIDE - SITUATION - SPOT - STANCE - STATE - STATUS - STEAD - VIEWposition- n. A place or location.
- n. A post of employment; a job.
- n. A status or rank.
- n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
- n. A posture.
- n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
- n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
- n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- v. To put into place.
activity- n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
- n. Something done as an action or a movement.
- n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).
assumption- n. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- n. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- n. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- n. (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- n. The taking of a person up into heaven.
- n. A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
- n. (rhetoric) Assumptio.
attitude- n. The position of the body or way of carrying oneself; posture.
- n. Disposition or state of mind.
- n. (uncountable, countable) A negative, irritating, or irritated attitude; posturing.
- n. (aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon,…
- n. (ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
- v. To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
- v. To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.
berth- n. A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
- n. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.).
- n. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
- n. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
- n. A job or position, especially on a ship.
- n. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- n. (sports) position on the field of play.
- v. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.
- v. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to.
billet- n. A short informal letter.
- n. A written order to quarter soldiers.
- n. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- n. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- n. (figuratively) Berth; position.
- v. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
- v. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
- v. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
- n. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- n. A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- n. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- n. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- n. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- n. A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
business- n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
- n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
- n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
- n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
- n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
- n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
- n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
- adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
- adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
- adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
condition- n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
- n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
- n. The health status of a medical patient.
- n. The state or quality.
- n. A particular state of being.
- n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
- v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
- v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
- v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…
displace- v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- v. (psycology) to repress.
emplacement- n. An installation that houses a military weapon.
- n. A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere.
- n. (geology) The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body…
function- n. What something does or is used for.
- n. A professional or official position.
- n. An official or social occasion.
- n. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- n. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of…
- n. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- n. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- n. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- n. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
- v. (intransitive) to have a function.
- v. (intransitive) to carry on a function; to be in action.
item- n. A distinct physical object.
- n. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
- n. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
- n. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
- n. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
- n. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
- n. A short article in a newspaper.
- n. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
job- n. A task.
- n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
- n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
- n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
- v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
- v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- v. To hire or let in periods of service.
lay- v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
- v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
- v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
- v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- v. (law) To state; to allege.
- v. (military) To point; to aim.
- v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- v. To apply; to put.
- v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
- v. To present or offer.
- n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- n. A share of the profits in a business.
- n. The direction a rope is twisted.
- n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
- n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
- n. A lake.
- adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
- adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
- v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
- n. (obsolete) A law.
- n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
- v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
lieu- n. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of.
line- n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
- n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
- n. Direction, path.
- n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
- n. A letter, a written form of communication.
- n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
- n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
- n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
- n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
- n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
- n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
- n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
- n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
- n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
- n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- n. A measure of length.
- n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
- n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
- n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
- n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
- n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
- n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
- v. To form a line along.
- v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
- v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
- v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
- v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
- v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
- v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.
locating- v. present participle of locate.
location- n. A particular point or place in physical space.
- n. An act of locating.
- n. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- n. (law) A leasing on rent.
- n. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- n. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according…
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
occupation- n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
- n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
office- n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly.
- n. A position of responsibility.
- n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- n. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
- n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral…
- n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
- n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
- n. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
- n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- n. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly.
- n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- n. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly.
- n. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen,…
- n. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown…
- n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
- n. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
- n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
- n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and…
- v. To provide (someone) with an office.
- v. (intransitive) To have an office.
opinion- n. A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
- n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
- n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
- n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
- n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially…
- n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice…
- v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
orientation- n. (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- n. (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
- n. (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with…
- n. (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
- n. (countable) The ability to orient.
- n. (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
- n. (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
- n. (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- n. (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively"…
part- n. A portion; a component.
- n. Duty; responsibility.
- n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
- v. (intransitive) To leave.
- v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
- v. (transitive) To divide in two.
- v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
- v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
- v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
- v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
- v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- v. To leave; to quit.
- v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- adj. Fractional; partial.
- adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.
perspective- n. A view, vista or outlook.
- n. The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
- n. The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
- n. (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure…
- n. The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
- n. A perspective glass.
- n. A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
- adj. Of, in or relating to perspective.
- adj. (obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
place- n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- n. A location or position in space.
- n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- n. A frame of mind.
- n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
- v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
placement- n. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
- n. A location or position.
- n. The act of matching a person with a job.
point- n. A discrete division of something.
- n. A sharp extremity.
- n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- n. Lace worked by the needle.
- n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
- n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
- n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
- v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
- v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
- v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
- v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
- v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
- v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
- v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
- v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
- v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
- v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
- v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
- v. (obsolete) To appoint.
- v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.
pose- n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
- v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
- n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
- n. Affectation.
- v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
- v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
- v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).
position- n. A place or location.
- n. A post of employment; a job.
- n. A status or rank.
- n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
- n. A posture.
- n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
- n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
- n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- v. To put into place.
positioning- v. present participle of position.
- n. The act of positioning; placement.
post- n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
- n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- n. A pole in a battery.
- n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- n. (sports) A goalpost.
- n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers;…
- v. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
- n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility…
- n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of…
- n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such…
- n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person…
- n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.
- n. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line…
- n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
- n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
- v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- v. To travel quickly; to hurry.
- v. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially…
- v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
- adv. Sent via the postal service.
- n. An assigned station; a guard post.
- n. An appointed position in an organization, job.
- v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- v. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
- n. (film, informal) Post-production.
posture- n. The way a person holds and positions their body.
- n. A situation or condition.
- n. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- n. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- v. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will…
- v. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
- v. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
put- v. To place something somewhere.
- v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
- v. To express something in a certain manner.
- v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
- v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
- v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
- n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- n. An old card game.
- n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
- n. (obsolete) A prostitute.
relation- n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
- n. A member of one's family.
- n. The act of relating a story.
- n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
- n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
- n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.
role- n. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- n. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
- n. The function or position of something.
- n. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
- n. (grammar): The function of a word in a phrase.
set- v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
- v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
- v. (transitive) To adjust.
- v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
- v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
- v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- v. (intransitive) To solidify.
- v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
- v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- v. To place or fix in a setting.
- v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
- v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
- v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
- n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
- n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
- n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
- n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
- n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
- n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
- n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
- n. A young oyster when first attached.
- n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
- n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- adj. Fixed in position.
- adj. Rigid, solidified.
- adj. Ready, prepared.
- adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
- adj. Prearranged.
- adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
- adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- n. A rudimentary fruit.
- n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
- n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- n. An object made up of several parts.
- n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
- n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- n. The scenery for a film or play.
- n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
- v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.
side- n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
- n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
- n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
- n. One set of competitors in a game.
- n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
- n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
- n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
- n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
- v. To lean on one side.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
- v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
- adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
- adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
situation- n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
- n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
- n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
spot- n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
- n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
- n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
- n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- n. A location or area.
- n. A parking space.
- n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
- n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- n. Difficult situation; predicament.
- n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
- n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
- n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
- n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
- n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
- n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
- n. An autosoliton.
- n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
- v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
- v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
- adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.
stance- n. The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
- n. One’s opinion or point of view.
- n. (Scotland) A station; a position; a site; a stopping place for buses at a bus station.
- n. (obsolete) A stanza.
state- n. A polity.
- n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- n. High social standing or circumstance.
- n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
- v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
- v. (transitive) To make known.
- adj. (obsolete) stately.
status- n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- n. Prestige or high standing.
- n. A situation or state of affairs.
- n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
- n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…
stead- n. (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general.
- n. (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
- n. (obsolete) A specific place or point on a body or other surface.
- n. (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
- n. (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm.
- n. (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
- n. (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
- n. Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now…
- v. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
- v. To fill place of.
view- n. (physical) Visual perception.
- n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
- n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
- n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
- n. A wake.
- v. (transitive) To look at.
- v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.
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