different between position vs gig

English

Etymology

From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positio (“a putting, position”), from ponere, past participle positus (“to put, place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??z?.?(?)n/
• (General American) enPR: p?-z??sh(?)n, IPA^(key): /p??z?.?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation (UK): po?si?tion, pos?i?tion, (US): po?si?tion

Noun

position (plural positions)

1. A place or location.
2. A post of employment; a job.
3. A status or rank.

   Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.

4. An opinion, stand, or stance.

   My position on this issue is unchanged.

5. A posture.

   Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.

6. (figuratively) A situation suitable to perform some action.

7. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

   Stop running all over the field and play your position!

8. (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
9. (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.
10. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
11. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.

Synonyms

• stead

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

position (third-person singular simple present positions, present participle positioning, simple past and past participle positioned)

1. To put into place.
   • 26 June 2012, Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status[1]

     While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.

Synonyms

• stell (obsolete)

Translations

Further reading

• position in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• position in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• sopition

Finnish

Noun

position

1. Genitive singular form of positio.

French

Etymology

From Old French posicion, from Latin positio, positionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.zi.sj??/

Noun

position f (plural positions)

1. position

Derived terms

Further reading

• “position” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

position c

1. a place, a location, a position. A description of where something is located with respect to the surroundings, e.g. the satellites of the GPS system.
2. (team sports) a place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

Declension

Related terms

• positionera

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?g, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. According to one theory, from Middle English gige (“fiddle”) and Middle English *gygge (found in Middle English whyrlegygge (“a top, whirligig, a rotating device”)), akin to Old Norse gígja (“fiddle”) and German Geige (“violin”). The earliest usage of the word gig in the sense of “any, usual temporary, paid job” found by linguist Geoffrey Nunberg is from a 1952 piece by Jack Kerouac about his gig as a part-time brakeman for the Southern Pacific railroad.

Noun

gig (plural gigs)

1. (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer.

   I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond.

   Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
2. (informal, by extension) Any job, especially one that is temporary.

   I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left.

   Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day.

3. (archaic, slang) Fun; frolics; a spree.
   • 1820, Randall's Diary

     In search of lark, or some delicious gig, / The mind delights on, when 'tis in prime twig.

4. A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.

   Synonym: leister

5. (historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
   • 1868, The Family Herald

     Years ago the cravers for sensation were delighted with the real gig and horse with the aid of which Mr. Thurtell murdered Mr. Weare.

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, page 77:

     the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.

6. (Southern England, nautical) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
7. (nautical) An open boat used to transport the captain of a ship, the captain's gig.
8. (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.

   I received gigs for having buttons undone.

Derived terms

• gigful
• gig-goer

Translations

References

• (fun, frolics): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

1. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
2. To engage in musical performances.

   The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time

3. To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.

   His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.

4. (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.

   His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.

Translations

Derived terms

• gigster

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of giga-, as in gigabyte, gigaunit, etc.

Noun

gig (plural gig or gigs)

1. (colloquial, computing) Clipped form of gigabyte.

   This picture is almost a gig; don't you wanna resize it?

   My new computer has over 500 gigs of hard drive space.

2. (slang) Any unit having the SI prefix giga-

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English gigge, from Old French gigues (“a gay, lively girl”), from Old Norse gikkr (“a pert person”), related to Danish gjæk (“a fool; jester”), Swedish gäck (“a fool; jester; wag”). More at geck.

Noun

gig (plural gigs)

1. (obsolete) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Synonyms

• fizgig
• giglot

Etymology 4

Probably from Latin gignere (“to beget”).

Verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

1. To engender.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

References

• “gig”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• gig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IgG, igg

Welsh

Noun

gig

1. Soft mutation of cig (“meat”).

Mutation

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /kik?/
• Tone numbers: gig⁸
• Hyphenation: gig

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Chinese ? (MC ??k?).

Adverb

gig (Sawndip form ?, old orthography gig)

1. extremely; highly; very

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese ? (MC kek?).

Verb

gig (old orthography gig)

1. to provoke; to agitate