Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“positions” is a form of

position

/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ noun, verb

Forms positions positioning positioned

  1. noun A place or location.
  2. noun A post of employment; a job.
  3. noun A status or rank. “Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.”
  4. noun An opinion, stand, or stance. “My position on this issue is unchanged.”
  5. noun A posture. “Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.”
  6. noun (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action. “The school is not a inposition to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.”
  7. noun (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. noun (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution. “long position”
  9. verb To put into place.

Synonyms

stead stell adjust disrupt disturb move place put relocate reposition set shift station transfer transpose military position view perspective posture attitude status post berth office spot billet situation spatial relation placement location

Etymology

From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positiō (“a putting, position”), from positus (“placed, situated”), past participle of pōnō (“to place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.
  3. verb To indicate the position of; to place. [R.] Encyc. Brit.

Etymology [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See Site, and cf. Composite, Compound, v., Depone, Deposit, Expound, Impostor, Opposite, Propound, Pose, v., Posit, Post, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “position”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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