different between pos vs posing

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

pos (comparative more pos, superlative most pos)

1. (Britain, slang) Clipping of positive.

   I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

2. (slang) Clipping of HIV positive.

Etymology 2

Noun

pos

1. plural of po

Anagrams

• OPS, OPS+, OPs, PSO, S.O.P., SOP, ops, sop

Galician

Noun

pos

1. plural of po

Verb

pos

1. Second-person singular (ti) present indicative of poñer

Verb

pos

1. Second-person singular (ti) present indicative of pór

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin post (with the t dropped so not to interfere with posto (“postal service, post, mail”)), Russian ????? (posle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pos/, /p?s/

Preposition

pos

1. after

Derived terms

• posa (“after”)
• pose (“then, afterwards”)
• depos (“since, afterward”)
  • depose (“since, from that time”)
• pos-

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch post (“post”), from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, posto, from Latin postus, from positus. Cognate to Malay pos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?s]
• Hyphenation: pos

Noun

pos (plural pos-pos, first-person possessive posku, second-person possessive posmu, third-person possessive posnya)

1. mail
2. post, station
3. (colloquial) meeting place
4. (accounting) budget

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From English post. Cognate to Indonesian pos.

Noun

pos

1. mail.
2. post, an assigned station, an appointed position in an organization.

Portuguese

Verb

pos

1. Obsolete spelling of pôs

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pos/, [?pos]

Conjunction

pos

1. (Latin America) Alternative spelling of pues

Preposition

pos

1. (archaic) after, behind

Noun

pos m (uncountable)

1. pursuit

Usage notes

• As a noun, current usage is restricted to the phrase en pos de.

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Noun

pos m

1. dog

Volapük

Preposition

pos

1. after, behind

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Noun

pos

1. thorn

References

• Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land ?ISBN, 2004)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??z??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?z??/
• Rhymes: -??z??

Verb

posing

1. present participle of pose

Noun

posing (plural posings)

1. The act by which something is posed.

   different posings of what was essentially the same question

2. The act of one who poses or postures.
   • 1978, Norman W. Provizer, Analyzing the Third World: Essays from Comparative Politics

     However much the Ghanaian masses warmed to the traditional pomp and circumstance of his occasional public appearances, members of the elite did not take Nkrumah's posings as a national chief seriously.

Anagrams

• Gipson, Spingo, pingos