Location vs Possie - What's the difference?
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A particular point or place in physical space.
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, title= 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]:
(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)
A firing position.
* 1990 , Matthew Kentridge, An unofficial war: inside the conflict in Pietermaritzburg
* 2005 , Matthew Wright, Western front: the New Zealand Division in the first World War, 1916-18
* 2006 , Wesley Olson, Gallipoli: the Western Australian story
(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 ,
* 1998 , , Volume 20, Issues 47-49,
* 2009 , Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia , Lonely Planet,
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
English
(wikipedia location)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- 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.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations
Synonyms
* (a place) placeDerived terms
* geolocationExternal links
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English
Alternative forms
* pozzyNoun
(en noun)- I'm just sitting in my possie , my place, waiting for something to happen.
- 'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family...
- Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger...
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- The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.
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- 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).
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- It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.