pos

UK /pɒz/ US /pɔz/

noun 7adj 3phrase 1

Collocations

ADJ.

above

The positive feedback from customers was above expectations this quarter.

VERB + POS

hang, include

The family photos hang on the pos in the living room.

POS + NOUN

corpus, information, sir, systems

The linguist used a POS corpus to analyze the grammatical patterns in modern English texts.

PREP.

on, on

I need to find a natural sentence using "pos" as a preposition with the collocate "on". However, "pos" is not a standard English preposition. Looking at the pattern and collocates, this appears to be asking me to work with a word that doesn't

ADV.

absolutely, actually

I absolutely pos the photo on social media without thinking about the consequences.

Definitions

adj

Clipping of positive.

I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

Alternative spelling of poz (“HIV positive”).

Clipping of possessive.

noun

Initialism of proof of service.

Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.

Initialism of part of speech.

Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.

Initialism of point of sale or point of service.

Initialism of proprietary operating system.

phrase

Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).

Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

Wiktionary

Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

Wiktionary

To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.

Wiktionary

Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.

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Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

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It should be noted that there is not always a perfect match between the logically possible systems displayed above and the PoS systems actually encountered in the sample languages. As the data in the

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, pos is marked as slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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