positional

/pəˈzɪʃənəl/

US pronunciation

American sound/pəˈzɪʃənəl/

pəˈzɪʃənəl

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

pə - ˈzɪʃənəl -> positional

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အနေအထား၊နေရာယူမှုဆိုင်ရာ။

Full entry

position /pǝ'zÇʃn/ n

၁။ [C] (က) နေရာ။ He moved the furniture back to its usual position. ❍ From his position on the cliff top, he had a good view of the harbour. ❍ Plant your rose-bush in a sunny position.
(ခ) (esp pl ) (techn ) တပ်ချထားရာ၊ လက်နက်ကြီးနေရာ။ attack the enemy positions.
၂။ [U] (က) နေရာမှန်။ နေရာ။ Her husband took his position at her side. ❍ The runners got into position on the starting-line. ❍ The chairs were all out of position.
(ခ) နေရာကောင်း။ နေရာ။ Candidates had been manoeuvring/jostling for position even before the leadership became vacant.
၃။ [C,U] အနေ အထား။ sit/lie in a comfortable position ❍ be in an upright/a horizontal position ❍ The soldiers have to stand for hours without changing position. ❍ The vase was in a precarious position on the window-sill.
၄။ [C] ~ (on sth) သဘောထား။ ရပ်တည်ချက်။ ရှုထောင့်။ He set out/stated the government's official position on the issue. ❍ She has made her position very clear.
၅။ [C esp sing ] အနေအထား။ အခြေအနေ။ in a position of power/strength/authority ❍ You realize that this puts me in a very awkward position? ❍ The company's financial position is very sound. ❍ He was in the unenviable position of having to choose between imprisonment and exile. ❍ What would you do in my position? ❍ (fml ) I'm afraid I am not in a position to (ie I cannot) help you.
၆။ (က) [C] အဆင့်။ discuss the position of women in society ❍ the company's market position ❍ ‘What is his position in class?’‘He's third from the top. ’ (ခ) [U] ရာထူးဂုဏ်သိန်။ people of position ❍ Wealth and position were not important to her.
၇။ [C] (fml ) အလုပ်။ ရာထူး။ a senior position in/with a big company ❍ I should like to apply for the position of assistant manager. ❍ She had worked for the firm for twenty years and was in a position of trust.
၈။ [C] (sport ) (အသင်းလိုက်ကစားရသော အားကစားနည်းများတွင်) နေရာ။ ‘What position does he play/is he?’ ‘Centre-forward. ’
v ထားသည်။ နေသည်။ နေရာယူသည်။ position the aerial correctly ❍ Note the positioning of the goalkeeper's feet. ❍ She positioned herself near the door. ❍ Alarms are positioned at strategic points around the prison.
❏ positional /-ʃǝnǝl/ adj အနေအထား၊ နေရာယူမှု ဆိုင်ရာ။ a player with poor positional skills.

More examples

I dragged myself into a sitting position.
First, get yourself into a comfortable position.
Raise the lever to the up position to get the water to flow.
The motor is mounted in the upright position.
The position is that all new residents are assessed by a social worker.
I wouldn’t boast about that if I were in your position.
Someone in their position can’t afford to take that kind of risk.
[be in a position to do something] : I’m not in a position to say who my sources are.
What is your current financial position?
[strengthen/improve/consolidate someone’s position] : A further injection of capital strengthened the company’s position.
Place the plant in a bright sunny position.
[position of] : Here is a chart showing the positions of the planets.
‘What position do you play?’ ‘Centre forward.’
[position on] : No one was sure of his position on any issue.
[take a position] : Do you expect the government to take a position one way or another on this legislation?
[take the position that] : The agency takes the position that the government’s specifications were deficient.
There are 12 women in management positions within the company.
I’m sorry, the position has already been filled (=someone has already been chosen to do the job).
[a position of authority/responsibility/power] : Such behaviour was clearly not acceptable for someone in a position of authority.
[abuse your position] : He had seriously abused his position as a doctor by releasing patients’ personal details.
Following behind in fourth position is car number 47.
There are two positional changes to the team.

Synonyms

place, location, site, spot, point, situation, angle, area, arrange, arrangement, array, attitude, ballgame, bearing, bearings, belief, berth, billet, cachet, capacity, carriage, caste, character, circumstances, class, color, condition, connection, consequence, deportment, dignity, dispose, disposition, district, do, duty, employment, environment, fix, footing, form, function, geography, ground, habit, how things stack up, importance, job, judgment, lay out, like it is, locale, locality, locate, locus, manner, mien, nine-to-five, occupation, office, opinion, outlook, pass, perception, physical place, plight, policy, port, pose, post, posture, predicament, prestige, profession, put, rank, reference, region, reputation, role, scene, seat, set, setting, settle, side, sit, slant, slot, space, sphere, stance, stand, standing, standpoint, state, station, stature, status, stick, strait, surroundings, take, the size of it, thinking, topography, tract, trade, view, viewpoint, whereabouts

Antonyms

disarrange, disarrangement, displace, disturb, entertainment, fun, good fortune, hobby, insignificance, lose, lowliness, pastime, refuse, remove, solution, unemployment, unsettle