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Porpoise
- noun - any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
Portfire
- - A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.
Portlier
- adjective - euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout"
Positing
- verb - put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
Position
- noun - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"
- a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
- a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"
- an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question"
- cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
- 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 chi
Positive
- adjective - a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
- formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"
- greater than zero; "positive numbers"
- having a positive charge; "protons are positive"
- impossible to deny or disprove; "incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence"; "proof positive"; "an irrefutable argument"
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test"
- involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor"
- marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"
- of or relating to positivism; "positivist thi
Potamian
- - A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.
Potation
- noun - a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft"
- the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink)
Poterium
- noun - a genus of thorny herbs or shrubs of the family Rosaceae