Species vs Position - What's the difference?
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A type or kind of thing.
* (Richard Holt Hutton) (1826-1897)
# A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Donald Worster, volume=100, issue=1, page=70, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= # A rank in the classification of organisms, below genus and above subspecies; a taxon at that rank.
#* 1859 , (Charles Darwin), (On the Origin of Species) :
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, title= # (label) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
# (label) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
# Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
# A public spectacle or exhibition.
(label) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated, so named because they retain the image of the bread and wine before their transubstantiation into the body and blood of Christ.
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
(en noun) (abbreviated as posish )
A place or location.
A post of employment; a job.
A status or rank.
An opinion, stand or stance.
A posture.
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
(finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm or institution.
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error .
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
To put into place.
* 26 June 2012 , Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/26/tax-crackdowns-threaten-channel-islands]
Species is a related term of position.
As nouns the difference between species and position
is that species is while position is .species
English
(wikipedia species)Noun
(species)- What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
A Drier and Hotter Future, passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}
- Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- Wit,the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
- the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet
- (Francis Bacon)
- There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
Usage notes
* (specie) is a separate word that means coin money, not the singular version of (species). * See (species name).Derived terms
* chemical species * endangered species * microspecies * ring species * subspeciesSee also
* family * genus * kingdom * order * phylum * race * variety * binomial nomenclatureposition
English
(wikipedia position)Noun
- Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
- My position on this issue is unchanged.
- Stand in this position , with your arms at your side.
- Stop running all over the field and play your position !
- Strong earnings have bolstered the company's financial position .
Derived terms
* anatomical position * assume the position * body position * bubble position * closed position * cowgirl position * developmental position * eccentric position * emergency position indicating radio beacon * fetal position * fielding position * Fowler's position * hinge position * human position * lithotomy position * long position * lotus position * midsinoary position * naked position * net position * neutral position * occlusal position * open position * overnight position * pole position * positional * position effect * position limit * position paper * position sense * position trader * position trading * preferred position * prone position * protrusive position * qualifying position * recovery position * reposition * sacroanterior position * sex position * short position * Sims' position * statutory position * take a position * Trendelenburg position * Yoga positionVerb
(en verb)- While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.