position

/pəˈzɪʃən/

意味: 位置、立場

例文: The cake’s position was dangerously close to Momo.
　　  ケーキの位置がモモに危険なほど近かった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: job position(職務の位置), sitting position(座る姿勢), strategic position(戦略的な位置)

定義: 位置や姿勢、または役職や地位を指します。物や人がどこにあるか、どのように配置されているかを示します。また、会社や組織内での役割や地位を表すこともあります。

positionは約6,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the particular portion of space occupied by something
Noun: a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
Noun: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
Noun: the arrangement of the body and its limbs
Noun: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
Noun: a job in an organization
Noun: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
Noun: the appropriate or customary location
Noun: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
Noun: the act of putting something in a certain place
Noun: a condition or position in which you find yourself
Noun: a rationalized mental attitude
Noun: an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
Noun: an item on a list or in a sequence
Noun: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
Noun: the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Verb: cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Verb: put into a certain place or abstract location

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She changed her position on the issue yesterday.(彼女は昨日、その問題に対する立場を変えた。)
The manager offered me a higher position at work.(マネージャーが私に職場での昇進を提案した。)
Please hold your position until I return.(戻るまでその位置を保ってください。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he put the lamp back in its place
Noun: consider what follows from the positivist view
Noun: he assumed an attitude of surrender
Noun: he had the status of a minor
Noun: the novel attained the status of a classic
Noun: atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life
Noun: he occupied a post in the treasury
Noun: the position of the hands on the clock
Noun: he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage
Noun: the cars were in position
Noun: what position does he play?
Noun: the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils
Noun: found herself in a very fortunate situation
Noun: there are two sides to every question
Noun: in the second place
Noun: moved from third to fifth position
Noun: can you go in my stead?
Noun: took his place
Noun: in lieu of
Verb: Put your things here
Verb: Set the tray down
Verb: Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
Verb: Place emphasis on a certain point

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): attitude, berth, billet, emplacement, lay, lieu, locating, location, military position, office, perspective, place, placement, pose, position, positioning, post, posture, put, set, side, situation, spatial relation, spot, stance, status, stead, view

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): activity, assumption, attitude, bodily property, condition, function, item, move, occupation, opinion, orientation, point, put, relation, role, state

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolution, abutment, accountancy, acting, action, advance, adverse opinion, affinity, agenda item, agitate, aid, anchorage, antinode, appointment, appose, arrange, association, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, attempt, automation, barrel, beat, bed, beginning, behavior, being, bipedalism, blind spot, blow, bottle, brandish, brutalization, bucket, burst, business relation, butt, buzz, calibration, capacity, career, carriage, catering, causality, celestial point, celibacy, center, ceremony, change, change hands, chase away, chokepoint, circulate, circumstance, clap, cleavage, climate, cock, coffin, comfort, comparison, concealment, condemnation, condition, conditionality, confectionery, conflict, connection, continuance, control, corner, cram, creation, credence, crossing, culture, cup of tea, curvature, damnation, dandle, danger, dead letter, death, decline, defensive, degree, deification, demand, dependence, despair, difficulty, disarrange, discomfort, dishabille, dislocate, dismantling, disorder, disorderliness, displace, dispose, disrespect, diversification, diversion, diversity, docket, domesticity, dominance, drag, drive, drop, dryness, dystopia, economic condition, education, emplace, employment, emptiness, encapsulation, end, energizing, engage, enjoyment, enlargement, ennoblement, ensconce, environmental condition, exoneration, expel, experimentalism, exteriorize, eye condition, facilitation, farming, fatness, feeling, financial condition, flick, fluctuate, flux, focus, follow-up, foundation, freedom, frizz, fruition, fullness, fun, function, funnel, game, gender role, geographic point, glide, glycerolize, grace, ground, ground state, ground zero, grouping, guess, guilt, hairlessness, hardball, hat, health, herd, heterozygosity, high horse, hilum, hit, homelessness, homozygosity, hopefulness, hospitalization, hostility, hot spot, hustle, hyalinization, identification, illumination, imbricate, immaturity, imminence, immunity, impaction, imperfection, impropriety, improvement, impurity, inaction, incidental, inclination, iniquity, innocence, insert, install, integrity, interrelation, intersperse, intolerance, inventory item, ionization, irradiation, irreverence, isomerism, jar, juxtapose, kalemia, kinship, lactosuria, ladle, lamentation, last, laterality, lateralize, laughter, launch, laxness, lay, leadership, leakiness, lean, leanness, lift, light, line item, linguistic relation, liveliness, load, logical relation, lower, lubrication, magnitude relation, malady, market, marshal, mathematical relation, maturity, mcburney’s point, measurement, mechanization, medium, mentality, merchantability, metier, midair, middle, military position, misplace, mobilize, mode, motion, motionlessness, motivation, mummification, music, mutism, mystification, nakedness, nationhood, navel, need, negotiation, neotony, nestle, news item, niche, node, noise conditions, nomination, nonbeing, normality, obligation, occupation, office, omnipotence, omniscience, operation, opposition, order, orderliness, organization, orientation, ornamentation, orthodoxy, overturn, ownership, parallelize, park, part, participation, paternalism, paternity, perch, perfection, perturbation, photography, physical condition, physiological property, physiology, physique, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, place, placement, plant, play, pleasure, plurality, poise, polarization, political orientation, politics, polyvalence, portfolio, position, possession, postpose, pour, practice, precession, preparation, prepose, prepossession, preservation, press down, pressure point, procedure, profession, prognathism, propel, protection, protuberance, provision, psychological state, pull, pulse, pump, punctum, puncture, purity, push, put, race, rack up, raise, rake, readiness, receivership, recess, reciprocality, recline, regularization, reinstatement, relationship, release, religious orientation, relocate, reorientation, repair, replace, repose, reposition, representation, respect, rest, reverence, revocation, rock, role, roll, rout out, run, rustication, rustiness, safety, saltate, sanitary condition, saturation, scan, scandalization, search, seat, second fiddle, send, sensory activity, separate, separation, serration, service, set, set down, settle, shelve, shift, ship, side, sign, silence, sin, singsong, sink, siphon, situate, situation, ski conditions, skillfulness, slide, sling, slip, social relation, solo, soundness, southernism, sow, space, space walk, spill, sport, stand, standardization, station, stature, status, stead, step, stigmatism, stir, stratify, submission, subservience, superimpose, superpose, support, susceptibility, swing, take back, tee, temporal relation, temporary state, tension, throw, tilth, timekeeping, tolerance, topographic point, trade, training, transfer, translate, transmit, transport, treadmill, trench, tribalism, trichion, tug, turgor, turn, unconnectedness, underlay, unemployment, union, unorthodoxy, unseat, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, unwind, upend, uproot, upstage, urbanization, use, utilization, utopia, vacuolization, vanishing point, variation, verbalization, virginity, wash, waste, wavelength, way, wedge, wetness, whistle, wild, wind, woosh, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): academicianship, accountantship, admiralty, aim, ambassadorship, angular position, anomaly, anteriority, apostleship, appose, apprenticeship, arrange, asana, associateship, attorneyship, back, bailiffship, ballet position, baronetage, barrel, bastardy, bed, behalf, bird’s eye view, bishopry, bottle, bucket, butt, cadetship, caliphate, captainship, cardinalship, caste, catcher, center, center field, centrality, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chieftaincy, clap, cleanup, clerkship, cock, coffin, coincidence, command, commandership, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, counselorship, cram, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, dead center, deanship, decubitus, deploy, dignity, direction, directorship, discipleship, dispose, docket, dress, ectopia, editorship, eldership, election, emirate, emplace, ensconce, equality, eversion, face, fatherhood, fingering, first base, footing, foremanship, forward, front, futurism, generalship, glycerolize, goalkeeper, governorship, gradient, ground, guard, half-mast, hard line, headship, high ground, high profile, high status, holy order, horizontality, hot seat, imbricate, implantation, incumbency, insert, inspectorship, install, instructorship, internship, interposition, intersperse, inwardness, jar, judgeship, juxtapose, juxtaposition, khanate, ladle, landmark, lay, lead, leadership, lean, lectureship, left, left field, left-handedness, legal status, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lie, lieutenancy, light, line, lineman, lithotomy position, load, lotus position, low status, magistracy, malposition, managership, manhood, marginality, marshal, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, mid-off, mid-on, middle, misplace, missionary position, moderatorship, nationality, nestle, nobility, northernness, occlusion, order arms, ordination, orient, orientation, outwardness, overlordship, paradigm, parallelize, park, pastorship, peasanthood, pedestal, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, pitch, pitcher, place, placement, plant, planting, plum, point of view, poise, pole position, polls, pose, position, post, posteriority, postpose, postposition, poverty trap, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, premiership, prepose, preposition, presentation, presidency, pride of place, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulship, proctorship, professorship, protectorship, public office, rabbinate, rack up, rank, receivership, recess, recline, rectorship, regency, replace, repose, reposition, repositioning, residency, rest, retirement, right, right field, room, rulership, sainthood, seat, second base, secretaryship, seigniory, senatorship, set, set down, setting, settle, shelve, ship, shortstop, sight, sign, sinecure, siphon, site, situate, slot, social station, solicitorship, soup, southernness, sow, space, speakership, sprawl, square, stance, stand, standing, station, step, stewardship, straddle, stratification, stratify, studentship, stymie, superimpose, superpose, superposition, teachership, tee, thaneship, third base, throne, throw, tilt, toehold, treasurership, trench, tribuneship, trusteeship, tuck, underlay, upend, vanguard, vantage, verticality, vice-presidency, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, weltanschauung, wing, womanhood

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: attitudinise, emplace, locate, officiate, place, placement, posit, position, positioner, positioning, post, postural, posture, set, setting, stand, view

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ition

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: