different between position vs residence

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

Etymology

From Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from resid?ns, present participle of reside?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z.?.d?ns/

Noun

residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)

1. The place where one lives; one's home.
2. A building used as a home.
3. The place where a corporation is established.
4. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
   • 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87

     The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

5. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
6. The place where anything rests permanently.
7. subsidence, as of a sediment

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

8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
   • 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason

     waters of a muddy residence

9. (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura

Related terms

• reside
• residency
• resident
• residential

Translations

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

residence f (plural residences)

1. residence (place where one resides)

Old French

Alternative forms

• residance
• residense

Noun

residence f (oblique plural residences, nominative singular residence, nominative plural residences)

1. residence (place where one resides)