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How to sign: 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";
See also: lay out, disembark, imprison, defer, jug, debark, array, knock back, incarcerate, ensnare, put off, put together, table, gaol, communicate, lay out, entrap, put off, knock back, tack together, table, shelve, assemble, postpone, immure, put up, arrange, shelve, set back, postpone, prorogue, put behind bars, array, put back, tack together, rig, erect, set back, defer, assemble, put across, unload, put together, prorogue, jail, remit, piece, set up, put over, set out, remit, put over, put back, lag, land, set up, set out, put back, remand, piece, lay, put down, set back, set up, set back, tack, put up, put away, frame, put down, tack, apply, replace, bring down, range, rear, hold over, repose, set down, range, put down, set up, hold over, set down, put on, pass on, set up, discharge, drop, raise, post, set up, pass
Similiar / Same: put, set, place, lay, pose
Within this category: appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, docket, emplace, emplace, ensconce, glycerolize, ground, imbricate, insert, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay, lean, load, marshal, middle, misplace, misplace, nestle, parallelize, park, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, plant, plant, poise, position, postpose, prepose, rack up, recess, recline, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, set, settle, set down, set down, shelve, ship, sign, siphon, situate, sow, space, stand, step, stick, stratify, superimpose, superpose, tee, throw, throw, trench, underlay, upend
How to sign: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
"consider what follows from the positivist view";
Similiar / Same: view, perspective
Categories: orientation
Within this category: bird's eye view, futurism, light, paradigm, sight, straddle, vanguard, Weltanschauung
How to sign: position or arrangement of the body and its limbs
"he assumed an attitude of surrender";
Similiar / Same: posture, attitude
Categories: bodily property
Within this category: asana, ballet position, decubitus, ectopia, eversion, guard, lithotomy position, lotus position, missionary position, order arms, pose, presentation, sprawl, stance, tuck
How to sign: a job in an organization
"he occupied a post in the treasury";
Similiar / Same: berth, post, billet, situation, office, spot, place
Categories: business, job, line, line of work, occupation
Within this category: academicianship, accountantship, admiralty, ambassadorship, apostleship, apprenticeship, attorneyship, bailiffship, bishopry, cadetship, caliphate, captainship, cardinalship, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chieftaincy, clerkship, commandership, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, counselorship, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, deanship, directorship, discipleship, editorship, eldership, emirate, fatherhood, fatherhood, foremanship, generalship, governorship, headship, headship, hot seat, incumbency, inspectorship, instructorship, internship, judgship, khanate, lectureship, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lieutenancy, magistracy, managership, manhood, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, moderatorship, overlordship, pastorship, peasanthood, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, premiership, presidency, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulship, proctorship, professorship, protectorship, public office, receivership, regency, residency, rulership, sainthood, secretaryship, senatorship, sinecure, solicitorship, speakership, stewardship, studentship, teachership, thaneship, throne, treasurership, tribuneship, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, womanhood
How to sign: the act of putting something in a certain place or location
Similiar / Same: locating, positioning, location, emplacement, placement
Categories: activity
Within this category: fingering, implantation, interposition, juxtaposition, orientation, planting, repositioning, set, stratification, superposition, superposition
