Position vs. Direction — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Position and Direction
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Position
A place or location.
Direction
A course along which someone or something moves
She set off in the opposite direction
He had a terrible sense of direction
Position
The right or appropriate place
The bands are in position for the parade's start.
Direction
The management or guidance of someone or something
Under his direction, the college has developed an international reputation
Position
A strategic area occupied by members of a force
The troops took up positions along the river.
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Direction
The management, supervision, or guidance of a group or operation
The manager's direction of the sales campaign has been highly effective.
Position
The way in which something is placed
The position of the clock's hands.
Direction
The art or action of directing a musical, theatrical, or cinematic production.
Position
The arrangement of body parts; posture
A standing position.
Direction
An authoritative order or command
The supervisor shouted directions to employees in the warehouse.
Position
In ballet, any of the five arrangements of the arms and feet in which the legs are turned out from the pelvis.
Direction
(Music) A word or phrase in a score indicating how a passage is to be played or sung.
Position
An advantageous place or location
Jockeys maneuvering for position.
Direction
Directions Instructions in how to do something or reach a destination
Read the directions before assembling the grill.
Asked for directions in how to get to the lake.
Position
A situation as it relates to the surrounding circumstances
In a position to bargain.
Direction
The course along which a person or thing is moving or must move to reach a destination
The boat left the bay and sailed in a northerly direction.
Position
A point of view or attitude on a certain question
The mayor's position on taxes.
Direction
The point toward which a person or thing faces or is oriented
The twins stood back to back, looking in opposite directions.
Position
Social standing or status; rank.
Direction
A course or line of development; a tendency toward a particular end or goal
Charting a new direction for the company.
Position
A post of employment; a job.
Direction
A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
Keep going in the same direction.
Position
(Sports) The area for which a particular player is responsible.
Direction
A general trend for future action.
Position
The arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.
Direction
Guidance, instruction.
The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.
Position
The act or process of positing.
Direction
The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak.
Position
A principle or proposition posited.
Direction
(dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
Position
A commitment to buy or sell a given amount of securities or commodities.
Direction
(archaic) A person's address.
Position
The amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
Direction
The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o public affairs or of a bank.
I do commit his youthTo your direction.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;ll chance, direction, which thou canst not see.
Position
The ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.
Direction
That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver.
Position
To put in place or position.
Direction
The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
Position
To determine the position of; locate.
Direction
The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
Position
A place or location.
Direction
The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
Position
A post of employment; a job.
Direction
The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; - distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
Position
A status or rank.
Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
Direction
A line leading to a place or point;
He looked the other direction
Didn't know the way home
Position
An opinion, stand, or stance.
My position on this issue is unchanged.
Direction
The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves;
He checked the direction and velocity of the wind
Position
A posture.
Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
Direction
A general course along which something has a tendency to develop;
I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts
His ideals determined the direction of his career
They proposed a new direction for the firm
Position
(figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
The school is not in a position to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
Direction
Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
Position
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Stop running all over the field and play your position!
Direction
The act of managing something;
He was given overall management of the program
Is the direction of the economy a function of government?
Position
(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
Long position
Naked position
Direction
A message describing how something is to be done;
He gave directions faster than she could follow them
Position
(finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
Direction
The act of setting and holding a course;
A new council was installed under the direction of the king
Position
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
Direction
A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;
The judge's charge to the jury
Position
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Direction
The concentration of attention or energy on something;
The focus of activity shifted to molecular biology
He had no direction in his life
Position
(poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
Position
To put into place.
Position
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it.
Position
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Position
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before.
Position
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
Position
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; - called also the rule of trial and error.
Position
To indicate the position of; to place.
Position
The particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;
He put the lamp back in its place
Position
A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
Position
A way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
Consider what follows from the positivist view
Position
Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
He assumed an attitude of surrender
Position
The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
He had the status of a minor
The novel attained the status of a classic
Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life
Position
A job in an organization;
He occupied a post in the treasury
Position
The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
The position of the hands on the clock
He specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage
Position
The appropriate or customary location;
The cars were in position
Position
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
What position does he play?
Position
The act of putting something in a certain place or location
Position
A condition or position in which you find yourself;
The unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils
Found herself in a very fortunate situation
Position
An item on a list or in a sequence;
In the second place
Moved from third to fifth position
Position
A rationalized mental attitude
Position
An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
There are two sides to every question
Position
The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
Can you go in my stead?
Took his place
In lieu of
Position
The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Position
Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Position
Put into a certain place or abstract location;
Put your things here
Set the tray down
Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
Place emphasis on a certain point
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