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missionary position vs position

position vs missionary position

missionary position and position both are nouns.

missionary position is not a verb while position is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
missionary position Yes No No No
position Yes No Yes No
As nouns, position is a hypernym of missionary position; that is, position is a word with a broader meaning than missionary position:
  • missionary position: a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples
  • position: the arrangement of the body and its limbs
Other hypernyms of missionary position include attitude, posture.
missionary position (noun) position (noun)
a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples the act of putting something in a certain place
a job in an organization
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
a rationalized mental attitude
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
an item on a list or in a sequence
the particular portion of space occupied by something
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
the appropriate or customary location
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
a condition or position in which you find yourself
missionary position (verb) position (verb)
put into a certain place or abstract location
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
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