Positional vs. Disposition — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Positional and Disposition
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Positional
A place or location.
Disposition
A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way that may be learned. The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief that is currently being considered by the mind.
Positional
The right or appropriate place
The bands are in position for the parade's start.
Disposition
A person's inherent qualities of mind and character
He has the disposition of a saint
Your sunny disposition has a way of rubbing off on those around you
Positional
A strategic area occupied by members of a force
The troops took up positions along the river.
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Disposition
The way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things
The plan shows the disposition of the rooms
Positional
The way in which something is placed
The position of the clock's hands.
Disposition
The distribution or transfer of property or money to someone, especially by bequest
This is a tax which affects the disposition of assets on death
Positional
The arrangement of body parts; posture
A standing position.
Disposition
The power to deal with something as one pleases
If Napoleon had had railways at his disposition, he would have been invincible
Positional
In ballet, any of the five arrangements of the arms and feet in which the legs are turned out from the pelvis.
Disposition
One's usual mood; temperament
A sweet disposition.
Positional
An advantageous place or location
Jockeys maneuvering for position.
Disposition
A habitual inclination; a tendency
A disposition to disagree.
Positional
A situation as it relates to the surrounding circumstances
In a position to bargain.
Disposition
A physical property or tendency
A swelling with a disposition to rupture.
Positional
A point of view or attitude on a certain question
The mayor's position on taxes.
Disposition
Arrangement, positioning, or distribution
A cheerful disposition of colors and textures.
A convoy oriented into a north-south disposition.
Positional
Social standing or status; rank.
Disposition
An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.
Positional
A post of employment; a job.
Disposition
The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose
The funds that were put at her disposition.
Positional
(Sports) The area for which a particular player is responsible.
Disposition
The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:
Positional
The arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.
Disposition
Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:
Positional
The act or process of positing.
Disposition
Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
I have little disposition now to do as you say.
Salt has a disposition to dissolve in water.
Positional
A principle or proposition posited.
Disposition
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
She has a sunny disposition.
He has such a foul disposition.
Positional
A commitment to buy or sell a given amount of securities or commodities.
Disposition
To remove or place in a different position.
Positional
The amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
Disposition
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.
The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.
Positional
The ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.
Disposition
The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
Positional
To put in place or position.
Disposition
Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
Positional
To determine the position of; locate.
Disposition
Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
How stands your disposition to be married?
Positional
Relating to the position of something.
Disposition
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.
Positional
(economics) Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
Disposition
Mood; humor.
As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.
Positional
(chess) Based on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
Disposition
Your usual mood;
He has a happy disposition
Positional
Of or pertaining to position.
Ascribing unto plants positional operations.
Disposition
The act or means of getting rid of something
Positional
Of or relating to or determined by position
Disposition
An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
He had an inclination to give up too easily
A tendency to be too strict
Disposition
A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;
A swelling with a disposition to rupture
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