position
位置,定位,职务,姿势
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- : condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- : a place occupied or to be occupied; site: a fortified position.
- : the proper, appropriate, or usual place: out of position.
- : situation or condition, especially with relation to favorable or unfavorable circumstances: to be in an awkward position; to bargain from a position of strength.
- : status or standing: He has a position to maintain in the community.
- : high standing, as in society; important status: a person of wealth and position.
- : a post of employment: a position in a bank.
- : manner of being placed, disposed, or arranged: the relative position of the hands of a clock.
- : bodily posture or attitude: to be in a sitting position.
- : mental attitude; stand: one's position on a controversial topic.
- : the act of positing.
- : something that is posited.
- : Ballet. any of the five basic positions of the feet with which every step or movement begins and ends.Compare first position, second position, third position, fourth position, fifth position.
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Examples
The scanner is light and super easy to use, and you can even put it away in a vertical position to make room for drawing when you’re done.
Ironically, it is elderly men in senior positions who often have a reputation for talking endlessly during meetings and resenting any challenge to their authority, especially from women, experts say.
If I were actually applying for a position, the system would compare my scores with those of employees already working in that job.
We are disgusted and outraged that someone in a position of power and trust would use it for these means.
It’s more that he’s in a better position to do the things that make him such a great player.
Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.
In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.
And by the time an airplane was in the water, its exact position would be known.
In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.