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position vs chair

chair vs position

position and chair both are nouns.

position and chair both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
position Yes No Yes No
chair Yes No Yes No
As nouns, chair is a hyponym of position; that is, chair is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than position:
  • position: a job in an organization
  • chair: the position of professor
Other hyponyms of position include academicianship, accountantship, admiralty, ambassadorship, apostleship, apprenticeship, associateship, attorneyship, bailiffship, baronetage, bishopry, episcopate, cadetship, caliphate, captaincy, captainship, cardinalate, cardinalship, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, chieftaincy, chieftainship, clerkship, commandership, commandery, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, councilorship, counsellorship, counselorship, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, deanery, deanship, directorship, discipleship, editorship, eldership, emirate, fatherhood, fatherhood, foremanship, generalcy, generalship, governorship, headship, headship, hot seat, incumbency, inspectorship, instructorship, internship, judgeship, judicature, khanate, lectureship, legateship, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lieutenancy, magistracy, magistrature, managership, manhood, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, moderatorship, overlordship, pastorate, pastorship, peasanthood, plum, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, prelature, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, professorship, protectorship, public office, rabbinate, receivership, rectorate, rectorship, regency, residency, rulership, sainthood, secretaryship, feudal lordship, seigneury, seigniory, senatorship, sinecure, solicitorship, speakership, stewardship, studentship, teachership, thaneship, throne, treasurership, tribuneship, trusteeship, vice-presidency, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, womanhood.
position (noun) chair (noun)
the act of putting something in a certain place the position of professor
a job in an organization a seat for one person, with a support for the back
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another a particular seat in an orchestra
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
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
position (verb) chair (verb)
put into a certain place or abstract location preside over
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
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