plant vs position

plant and position both are nouns.

As verbs, position is a hypernym of plant; that is, position is a word with a broader meaning than plant:

Other hypernyms of plant include place, pose, put, set, lay.

As verbs, position is a hypernym of plant; that is, position is a word with a broader meaning than plant:

plant: place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
position: put into a certain place or abstract location

Other hypernyms of plant include place, pose, put, set, lay.

plant (noun)	position (noun)
buildings for carrying on industrial labor	the particular portion of space occupied by something
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion	a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience	a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
something planted secretly for discovery by another	the arrangement of the body and its limbs
	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
	a job in an organization
	the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
	the appropriate or customary location
	(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
	the act of putting something in a certain place
	a condition or position in which you find yourself
	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 post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
	the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom

plant (verb)	position (verb)
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground	cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
fix or set securely or deeply	put into a certain place or abstract location
set up or lay the groundwork for
place into a river
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
put firmly in the mind