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Location vs Possie - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between location and possie

is that location is a particular point or place in physical space while possie is a firing position.

location

Noun

(en noun)
  • A particular point or place in physical space.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • An act of locating.
  • * 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. ''v.'' Snodgrass'', reprinted in, 1887, , volume 12, page 207 [http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location]:
  • The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
  • (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
  • * 2011 , Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
  • It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations

    Synonyms

    * (a place) place

    Derived terms

    * geolocation

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    possie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pozzy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A firing position.
  • * 1990 , Matthew Kentridge, An unofficial war: inside the conflict in Pietermaritzburg
  • I'm just sitting in my possie , my place, waiting for something to happen.
  • * 2005 , Matthew Wright, Western front: the New Zealand Division in the first World War, 1916-18
  • 'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family...
  • * 2006 , Wesley Olson, Gallipoli: the Western Australian story
  • Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger...
  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
  • * 1984 , Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground'', from ''From the Outer'', reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection , page 289,
  • The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.
  • * 1998 , , Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,
  • Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections).
  • * 2009 , Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia , Lonely Planet, page 346,
  • It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.

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