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| ==Origin== | | ==Origin== |
− | [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''posycion'', from Anglo-French ''posicioun'', from [[Latin]] ''position''-, ''positio'', from ''ponere'' to lay down, put, place, from Old Latin ''posinere'', from ''po''- away (akin to Old Church Slavic po-, perfective prefix, [[Greek]] ''apo'' away) + Latin ''sinere'' to leave | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''posycion'', from Anglo-French ''posicioun'', from [[Latin]] ''position''-, ''positio'', from ''ponere'' to lay down, put, place, from Old Latin ''posinere'', from ''po''- away (akin to Old Church Slavic po-, perfective prefix, [[Greek]] ''apo'' away) + Latin ''sinere'' to leave |
− | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] | + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1: an [[act]] of placing or arranging: as a : the laying down of | | *1: an [[act]] of placing or arranging: as a : the laying down of |
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| :c : an employment for which one has been hired : job <a position with a brokerage firm> | | :c : an employment for which one has been hired : job <a position with a brokerage firm> |
| :d : a situation that confers [[advantage]] or preference | | :d : a situation that confers [[advantage]] or preference |
| + | ==See also== |
| + | *'''''[[Posture]]''''' |
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| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
| '''Position''' in team [[sports]] refers to the joint arrangement of a team on its field of [[play]] during a [[game]] and to the [[standardized]] place of any [[individual]] player in that arrangement. Much instruction, [[strategy]], and reporting is [[organized]] by a set of individual player positions that is standard for the [[sport]]. | | '''Position''' in team [[sports]] refers to the joint arrangement of a team on its field of [[play]] during a [[game]] and to the [[standardized]] place of any [[individual]] player in that arrangement. Much instruction, [[strategy]], and reporting is [[organized]] by a set of individual player positions that is standard for the [[sport]]. |
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− | Some player positions may be official, others unofficial. For example, baseball rules [[govern]] the pitcher by that name, but not the shortstop, where pitcher and shortstop are two of baseball's nine fielding positions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(team_sports)] | + | Some player positions may be official, others unofficial. For example, baseball rules [[govern]] the pitcher by that name, but not the shortstop, where pitcher and shortstop are two of baseball's nine fielding positions. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(team_sports)] |
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| [[Category: General Reference]] | | [[Category: General Reference]] |