Position vs. Disposition
Positionnoun
A place or location.
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A post of employment; a job.
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A status or rank.
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An opinion, stand, or stance.
Positionnoun
A posture.
Positionnoun
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Positionnoun
(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
Positionnoun
(finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.Position (finance)
Positionnoun
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
Positionnoun
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Positionverb
To put into place.
Positionnoun
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
Positionnoun
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Positionnoun
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Positionnoun
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
Positionnoun
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; - called also the rule of trial and error.
Positionverb
To indicate the position of; to place.
Positionnoun
the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;
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a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
Positionnoun
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
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position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
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the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
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a job in an organization;
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the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
Positionnoun
the appropriate or customary location;
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(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
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the act of putting something in a certain place or location
Positionnoun
a condition or position in which you find yourself;
Positionnoun
an item on a list or in a sequence;
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a rationalized mental attitude
Positionnoun
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
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the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
Positionnoun
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Positionverb
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Positionverb
put into a certain place or abstract location;
Dispositionnoun
The arrangement or placement of certain things.
Dispositionnoun
Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
Dispositionnoun
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
Dispositionnoun
Control over something.
Dispositionnoun
(legal) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
Dispositionnoun
(legal) Final decision or settlement.
Dispositionnoun
(medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
Dispositionnoun
(music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
Dispositionverb
To remove or place in a different position.
Dispositionnoun
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
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The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
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Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
Dispositionnoun
Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
Dispositionnoun
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
Dispositionnoun
Mood; humor.
Dispositionnoun
your usual mood;
Dispositionnoun
the act or means of getting rid of something
Dispositionnoun
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
Dispositionnoun
a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;
Dispositionnoun
a person's inherent qualities of mind and character
Dispositionnoun
an inclination or tendency
Dispositionnoun
the way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things
Dispositionnoun
the action of arranging people or things in a particular way
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the stationing of troops ready for military action
Dispositionnoun
the distribution or transfer of property or money to someone, especially by bequest
Dispositionnoun
the power to deal with something as one pleases
Dispositionnoun
the determination of events by divine power.
Disposition
A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way that may be learned. The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief that is currently being considered by the mind.
