Position and String

noun

• The particular portion of space occupied by something.
  • usage: "he put the lamp back in its place"
  • synonyms: place
• A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons.
  • synonyms: military position
• A way of regarding situations or topics etc..
  • usage: "consider what follows from the positivist view"
  • synonyms: view, perspective
• The arrangement of the body and its limbs.
  • usage: "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
  • synonyms: posture, attitude
• The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society.
  • usage: "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
  • synonyms: status
• A job in an organization.
  • usage: "he occupied a post in the treasury"
  • synonyms: post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation
• The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated.
  • usage: "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"
  • synonyms: spatial relation
• The appropriate or customary location.
  • usage: "the cars were in position"
• In team sports. ( the role assigned to an individual player)
  • usage: "what position does he play"
• The act of putting something in a certain place.
  • synonyms: placement, location, locating, positioning, emplacement
• A condition or position in which you find yourself.
  • usage: "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
  • synonyms: situation
• A rationalized mental attitude.
  • synonyms: stance, posture
• An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute.
  • usage: "there are two sides to every question"
  • synonyms: side
• An item on a list or in a sequence.
  • usage: "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"
  • synonyms: place
• The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
  • usage: "can you go in my stead"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
  • synonyms: stead, place, lieu
• The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom.

verb

• Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation.
• Put into a certain place or abstract location.
  • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • synonyms: put, set, place, pose, lay

• (n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
• (v.t.) To indicate the position of; to place.
• (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.

Position is a market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into. The buyer of a commodity is said to have a long position, and the seller of a commodity is said to have a short position. Related: Open contracts.

noun

• A lightweight cord.
  • synonyms: twine
• Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.
  • usage: "the strings played superlatively well"
  • synonyms: bowed stringed instrument
• A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
• A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
  • usage: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
  • synonyms: train
• A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases. )
• A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.
  • usage: "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
  • synonyms: drawstring, drawing string
• A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod. )
• Cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
  • synonyms: cosmic string
• A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
• A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
  • usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
  • synonyms: chain, strand

verb

• Thread on or as if on a string.
  • usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
  • synonyms: thread, draw
• Add as if on a string.
  • usage: "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
  • synonyms: string up
• Move or come along.
  • synonyms: string along
• Stretch out or arrange like a string.
• String together; tie or fasten with a string.
  • usage: "string the package"
• Remove the stringy parts of.
  • usage: "string beans"
• Provide with strings.
  • usage: "string my guitar"

• (n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
• (n.) Act of stringing for break.
• (n.) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
• (n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• (v.t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
• (v.i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched or people who are moving along, etc.
• (n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
• (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
• (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• (v.t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
• (n.) The points made in a game.
• (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
• (v.t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
• (n.) Same as Stringcourse.
• (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
• (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
• (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
• (v.t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
• (v.t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
• (n.) A small cord, a line, a twine or a slender strip of leather or other substance, used for binding together, fastening or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
• (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
• (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• (v.t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
• (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.