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position
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)
- A place or location.
- A post of employment; a job.
- A status or rank.
- Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- My position on this issue is unchanged.
- A posture.
- Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
- (figuratively) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (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!
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- (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.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (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)
- 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.
- 26 June 2012, Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status[1]
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
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- (team sports) a place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Declension
Related terms
- positionera
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plant
English
Etymology
From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan, borrowed through Celtic languages.
The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plant?re, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).
Pronunciation
- (General New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) enPR: plänt, IPA(key): /pl??nt/, [p?l???nt]
- (General Australian, US, Canada, Northern England) enPR: pl?nt, IPA(key): /plænt/, [p?l?ænt]
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [p?l?e?nt]
- Hyphenation: plant
- Rhymes: -??nt, -ænt
- Rhymes: -ænt
Noun
plant (plural plants)
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- 2008, Phil Yates, The Times, April 28 2008:
- O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.
- 2008, Phil Yates, The Times, April 28 2008:
- (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
- (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
Usage notes
The scientific definition of what organisms should be considered plants changed dramatically during the 20th century. Bacteria, algae, and fungi are no longer considered plants by those who study them. Many textbooks do not reflect the most current thinking on classification.
Hypernyms
- (biology): Archaeplastida
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- plant pot
- plant room
Translations
See plant/translations § Noun.
Verb
plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
- to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
- To place in the ground.
- To furnish or supply with plants.
- to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
- To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- to plant a colony
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations
- planting of countries like planting of woods
- To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- to plant Christianity among the heathen
- To set up; to install; to instate.
Derived terms
- faceplant, handplant
- plant out
Related terms
- plantation
Translations
See plant/translations § Verb.
See also
- plant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Verb
plant
- imperative of plante
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch plante, from Latin planta. Doublet of clan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?nt/
- Hyphenation: plant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
plant f (plural planten, diminutive plantje n)
- plant, any member of the kingdom Plantae
- (potentially offensive) cabbage, vegetable (person with severe brain damage)
Hyponyms
- boom
- gewas
- gras
- heester
- struik
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?nt/
- Hyphenation: plant
Verb
plant
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of planten
- imperative of planten
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Belgium) /pl?nt/, (Netherlands) /pl?nt/
- Hyphenation: plant
Verb
plant
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of plannen
- (archaic) plural imperative of plannen
References
French
Etymology
Deverbal of planter. Doublet of plan (“plan, map”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl??/
- Homophones: plan, plans, plants
Noun
plant m (plural plants)
- seedling
- young plant or plantation
Further reading
- “plant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Verb
plant
- inflection of planen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French plante (“plant”).
Noun
plant
- plant (organism)
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French plante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pl??t]
Noun
plant
- a plant
Verb
plant
- Medial form of plante; to plant.
Middle English
Noun
plant
- Alternative form of planete (“planet”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
plant
- imperative of plante
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?nt/
Verb
plant
- imperative of planta
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl??nt/
Adjective
plant
- neuter singular of plan
Old Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin planta.
Noun
plant pl
- children
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Descendants
- Old Irish: cland
- Irish: clann
- Manx: cloan
- Scottish Gaelic: clann
- Welsh: plant
Swedish
Adjective
plant
- absolute indefinite neuter form of plan.
Welsh
Etymology
From Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plant/
Noun
plant m (singulative plentyn)
- children, young people
- children (of parents), offspring (sometimes of animals), progeny, issue; descendants
- 1620, Revised version of William Morgan’s translation of the Bible, Joel 1:3:
- 1620, Revised version of William Morgan’s translation of the Bible, Joel 1:3:
- followers, disciples, servants
- people regarded as product of a particular place, time, event, circumstances, etc.
Mutation
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “plant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
West Frisian
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin planta. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
plant c (plural planten, diminutive plantsje)
- plant
Further reading
- “plant (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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