repositionn.
/ˌriːpəˈzɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌripəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/ 1.
a. The restoration of something to a particular place or position; an instance of this; (also) the action or an act of altering or adjusting the position of something.In quots. 1982 and 2002: the replacing of the Eucharistic elements in the tabernacle; cf. 3b.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > position upon > [noun] > placing upon or above > again
reposition1874
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 64 Of emorogie vniuersale helpyng..is made..with þise 2 entensionez..vndolaracioun, i. vnaking, & vpward reposicioun [?c1425 Paris layenge vpward; L. sursum repositionis], i. settyng.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Reposition, a putting back, a setting again in his place.
1813 Parliam. Hist. Eng. XVI. 1386 The engagements..are for the reposition of the island of Great Malouine, in the situation in which it stood before the 10th of June.
1838 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 24 337 The activity of the processes of interstitial absorption and reposition seems to bear a pretty constant ratio in every case with the natural tendency to decomposition.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) ii. x. 440 According to the laws of nutrition, the structure itself is kept up by reposition of new matter in the precise form of the old.
1976 in E. R. Robertson Engin. Uses Coherent Optics 688 If I see that the reference object gets no fringes when I put the plates together, I know my position is right... If my reposition is wrong I get dense fringes.
1977 College Composition & Communication 28 41/1 A sentence can be polished simply by rearranging the same words... This revision requires a bit more than the simple reposition of a phrase.
1982 N. Mitchell Cult & Controv. (1990) vii. 338 The reposition of the sacrament (which may not occur more than twice a day) may be done without elaborate ceremony.
2002 P. J. Elliott Ceremonies Liturg. Year vii. 107 The cross-bearer, candle bearers and thurifer(s) go to the right side of the area, where they remain standing facing across during the reposition of the Eucharist.
b. Surgery. Restoration of a part of the body to its normal position, as a surgical procedure; an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > setting bones or dislocations
algebraa1400
reduction?a1425
bone-setting1587
reposition1588
coaptation1783
reposit1849
fixation1897
1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method f. 67 Put it in his due place and right order againe... This reposition being made, [etc.].
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 431 Luxations,..it's cured by..reposition,..diligent deligation, and soft collocation.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 288 I place him..for reposition, binding him fast so that he cannot stir.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 151 The leaves..are laid to broken arms and legs after reposition with great success.
1782 J. Aitken Elements Theory & Pract. Physic & Surg. II. 193 Reposition of the prepuce must be effected mechanically.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 458 Retroflexion of the uterus discovered, and treated by reposition.
1897 Med. Rec. 29 May 758/2 Having accomplished then a real and true reposition, owing to a great disproportion between the rudimentary acetabulum and the head of the femur the reposition is not stable.
1928 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 4 400/2 In the treatment of fractures of the olecranon, a perfect anatomical reposition of the fragments is essential to success.
2005 A. D. Weaver et al. Bovine Surg. & Lameness (ed. 2) iv. 151 After initial partial reposition, maintain reposed part by ensuring that the remaining prolapsed uterus is kept above vulvar lip.
a. Scottish. The restoration of a person to an office previously held, esp. the ministry; an instance of this, a reinstatement. Also: the action or an act of restoring property or rights to a person, (a) re-endowment. Cf. repone v. 2. Obsolete.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > reinstatement
restitutiona1387
repossession1533
restauration1548
reposition1559
reinstalment1602
renstall1630
restoration1660
reinstation1686
rehabilitation1831
reinstatement1880
1559 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1875) III. 55 The restitutioun and repositioun of the saidis dekynnis to thair priuilegis..quhairof thai wer denudit.
1643 R. Baillie Let. 18 Feb. (1841) II. 52 At the day of reposition a number of gentleweomen and others came to the Church.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxiii. §3. 4 Under Assignations are comprehended Translations,..or Retrocessions,..which are also called Repositions.
a1698 W. Row Contin. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) 547 The three suspended conformists..expecting..reposition to their charges.
1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 50 The Commission-book was disapproven in the matter of Mr. Russell's reposition.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae x. 276 The Favour of such a Reposition [to the possession of an estate] is too extreme to be passed over.
b. Restoration of lands to a forest. Obsolete (historical in later use).
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the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > [noun] > of lands to a forest
reposition?1592
?1592 J. Manwood Brefe Coll. Lawes Forest 178 The reposition to the Forest of such landes as were disaforested by the Statute..is to be done by perambulation and viewe.
?1592 J. Manwood Brefe Coll. Lawes Forest 178 Such landes as were disaforested by the Puraley, and so remaine dissaforested without any reposition, those are called Puralleyes.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) Reposition of the Forrest, was an act whereby certain Forest grounds being made Purlieu upon view, were by a second view laid to the Forest again.
a. The action or practice of putting something in a place for storage or safe keeping; an instance of this. Cf. reposit v. 1. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun]
everting1568
deposition1577
discarding1600
excussion1607
dispatch1608
reposition1617
absolution1655
depositing1667
discardment1713
discardurea1762
cashiering1826
dropping1859
discard1906
junking1911
shedding1945
load-shedding1947
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun]
store1487
storing1494
bestowinga1533
reposition1617
repositure1657
magazininga1763
storage1828
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > laying up in a place
stowage1390
stowingc1440
repositure1657
reposition1709
laying1726
1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) vi. 18 What can be expected from that age, which is not capable of obseruation, carelesse of reposition?
a1653 H. Binning Serm. (1743) 579 When once a soul apprehends Christ, this is a reposition of all his cares and burdens.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxv. 365 For reposition and preserving dead mens skulls and bones.
1813 New Art of Memory (ed. 3) 251 Reposition is the manner of charging Memory with Note-worthy things.
b. Christian Church. The action or practice of retaining a portion of the Eucharistic elements for later use; = reservation n. 3. Obsolete. rare.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > preserving elements of
reserving1530
reservation1550
reposition1657
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xiv. 183 Protestant Divines condemn the reposition of the Sacrament.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
repositionv.
/ˌriːpəˈzɪʃn/, U.S. /ripəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/ΚΠ
a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1891) I. 278 Shall I revise..my logic of Political Economy, embodying every doctrine..which I have amended or re-positioned?
2. transitive (a) To restore to a particular position; (Surgery and Dentistry) to restore to a normal position, reposit (cf. reposit v. 2). (b) To alter or adjust the position of.
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the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (transitive)] > again
iterate1533
reposition1890
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > situate > in a different place
relocate1829
re-site1917
reposition1959
1890 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 22 June 8/4 One section of the structure which went adrift..will be repositioned.
1951 J. M. Schweitzer Oral Rehabilit. xxxv. 830 An attempt was made to reposition the mandible in an anteroposterior as well as a vertical and lateral direction.
1959 Times 2 Oct. 11/3 Arm rests have been redesigned and repositioned.
1976 O. M. Ferrer Symp. on Glaucoma iii. xix. 190 The iris is repositioned with external massage over the cornea.
1982 A. F. Wallace Progress Plastic Surg. xiii. 123 The muscular pressure..of a repaired cleft lip could be sufficient to reposition correctly a displaced premaxilla.
1998 L. Zigman Animal Husbandry (1999) 38 When he pulled-up his T-shirt to reposition the waistband, I saw a ripple of abdominal muscles that made my mouth water.
3. intransitive. To alter or adjust one's position.
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the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > change place or position
flitc1175
passa1387
changec1390
skifta1400
shift1530
transmigrate1611
reshift1629
transfer1646
to turn over1851
reposition1947
translocate1975
1947 A. C. Douglas Gliding & Adv. Soaring 48 If the tow is to consist of more than two sailplanes the manner in which they shall release or reposition should be decided beforehand.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. iv. 3/2 The Prisendam will make a second visit in April while repositioning from Singapore to Vancouver.
1996 Lacrosse Talk Oct. 14/1 The work rate of the non-ball carriers meant that Welsh defences were continually having to adjust and reposition.
4. transitive. Marketing. To change the positioning of (a product, service, or business) so as to target a new or different market sector. Also in extended use. Cf. position v. 2b.
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1965 Los Angeles Times 24 Oct. k3/1 The total program represents an aggressive move to reposition our car lines in keeping with the increasing public demand for more variety and choice.
1978 N. H. Giragosian Successful Product & Business Devel. v. 268 There were some relatively minor price readjustments made in the middle of 1967, principally to reposition certain types of product in the marketplace.
1989 Facts on File World News Digest (Nexis) 26 May Occhetto..had sought to reposition the party in the image of European social democracy.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 21 Mar. f2/5 The retailer was in the midst of repositioning itself as a more upscale fashion store.
2002 J. Heskett Toothpicks & Logos vii. 140 A decision to feature ethnic art from around the world on the tails of aircraft in an effort to reposition the carrier as an international, rather than a British, company.
Derivatives
repoˈsitioned adj.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [adjective] > in a different position
transposed1609
repositioned1951
1951 San Antonio (Texas) Express 9 Feb. 1/2 (caption) Repositioned steering wheels provide a more comfortable steering angle.
1969 Gloss. Terms Dentistry (B.S.I.) 69 Laterally repositioned flap operation.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 432/1 No changes in the surgically repositioned bone.
2001 Automobile June 29/3 Because of the repositioned camshafts, the tappets were now located in the head rather than..the block.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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