Posit

Definition: Posit

Posit

Noun

1. (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning.

Verb

1. Put (something somewhere) firmly; ""She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot".

2. Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature".

Date "posit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Note: Posit \Pos"it\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Posited; present participle verb or noun Positing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Posit

Synonyms: deposit (v), fix (v), postulate (v), situate (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Posit

English words defined with "posit": Posited, Positing. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Local analysts posit that U. S. Products seem to be expensive. (references)
Political Economy	Georgia	They also posit that Moscow holds the key to a peace settlement in Abkhazia, which has seen an increase in violence in the past month. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Posit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Posit" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	30	63,341
Lexical Verb (base form)	28.89%	13	97,576
Noun (singular)	4.44%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

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Language		Translations for "posit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		parashtroj (bring, commit, enunciate, expound, pose, prefer, propound, put forward, submit). (various references)

Arabic		‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss). (various references)

Bulgarian		слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), приемам като факт, постулирам (postulate), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, pitch, place, pose, position, produce, put, put on, put up, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate, stage). (various references)

Chinese		假定 (Assumption, hypothetical, Posited, Positing, Presume, Presumed, Presuming, supposition). (various references)

Czech		postulovat. (various references)

Farsi		فرض کردن (Adjudge, Aim, Assume, Count, Deem, Hypothesize, Imagine, Presume, Put, Repute, Suppose), فرض (Assumption, Duty, Guess, Hypothesis, If, Liability, Presumption, Supposition, Thesis), قراردادن (Fix, Include, Lodge, Pack, Park, Plumb, Pose, Posture, Put, Row, Set), ادعا (Claim, Plea, Postulate, Pretense, Pretension, Purporst), ثابت کردن (Clinch, Evidence, Freeze, Immobilize, Prover, Stable). (various references)

French		postuler (postulate), avancer, énoncer. (various references)

German		postulieren (postulate, postulation). (various references)

Greek		υποθέτω (assume, guess, hypothesize, presume, suppose, surmise), τοποθετώ (collocate, fit, install, instate, invest, lay, locate, place, pose, position, post, put, set, set up, station). (various references)

Hungarian		állít (affirm, allege, assert, aver, claim, contend, declare, represent, state, submit, to affirm, to allege, to assert, to asseverate, to aver, to claim, to contend, to corral, to line up, to parallel, to pillory, to predicate, to purport, to put in, to put up, to slant, to state, to submit, to suggest, to vow). (various references)

Italian		piazzare (be placed, market, place, post, put, settle, settle down). (various references)

Pig Latin		ositpay

Portuguese		pôr (affix, Don, lay, lay down, placatory, place, poser, put, put down, seat, set, shove, stick, to put), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, gentian, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, Nobby, out and out, refined, select, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well bred, well-made, wispy). (various references)

Russian		ставить (lay down, place, put, put down, set, staged, stand, station), класть в основу доводов. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), staviti (apply, bring up, input, insert, lay, park, place, pop, put, put on, set), namestiti (fix, focus, furnish, lay, place, pose, reduce, rig, set right, tune in). (various references)

Spanish		proponer (advance, bring forward, come through with, come up with, let out, offer, proffer, propose, propound, put forth, put forward, put up, suggest, tender), postular (postulate), colocar (adjust, bestow, collocate, dispose, embattle, employ, enrol, go in, install, invest, lay, lay down, locate, Lodge, marry off, perch, pitch, place, plant, play, position, put, put down, put up, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stand, station, Stow, tune). (various references)

Swedish		postulera (postulate), placera (deposit, drape, fix, invest, Lodge, Mount, Park, perch, place, plant, position, put, seat, set, settle, sit, site, situate). (various references)

Turkish		yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), yerine koymak (bestow, case, clap, put back, put up, relay, replace, slot into, spot), varsaymak (conjecture, count, deem, hypothesize, presume, reckon as, reckon for, say, suppose), farzetmek (assume, call, deem, fancy, imagine, opine, presume, reckon as, reckon for, repute, say, suppose, theorize). (various references)

Ukrainian		ставити (ante, place, plank, position, post, produce, put, set, set out, set up, stage, stagemanage, stand), вважати (account, allot, allow, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, consider, count, deem, opine, rate, repute, set down, suspect, think), постулювати (postulate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "posit": posited, positing, position, positional, positionally, positioned, positioning, positions, positive, positively, positiveness, positivenesses, positiver, positives, positivest, positivism, positivisms, positivist, positivistic, positivistically, positivists, positivities, positivity, positron, positronium, positroniums, positrons, posits. (additional references)
	Words ending with "posit": deposit, electrodeposit, exposit, oviposit, redeposit, reposit. (additional references)
	Words containing "posit": adiposities, adiposity, apposite, appositely, appositeness, appositenesses, apposition, appositional, appositions, appositive, appositively, appositives, composite, composited, compositely, composites, compositing, composition, compositional, compositionally, compositions, compositor, compositors, contraposition, contrapositions, contrapositive, contrapositives, decomposition, decompositions, depositaries, depositary, deposited, depositing, deposition, depositional, depositions, depositor, depositories, depositors, depository, deposits, diapositive, diapositives, disposition, dispositional, dispositions, dispositive, electrodeposited, electrodepositing, electrodeposition, electrodepositions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Posit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aposit, cosit, eosat, opcit, opit, oposit, oppit, Opseth, opsin, opsit, Opssat, Osti, Pasik, pesi, piost, ploesti, Poesi, Poesia, pois, poist, poit, polit, ponit, pooit, poosie, poosti, popit, popsie, Poritt, posait, posato, posbt, poset, posi, posie, posin, Posis, posish, positi, posito, posix, Poski, Possente, possi, possib, possie, Possil, postem, posti, potis, pozie, Prosim, prosit, prosite, prosti, ptosis, Puciato, Pusat, puseyite, Pussot, rosit, tosit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "posit" (pronounced pÄ"zut)
5	p Ä" z u t	composite, deposit.
4	-Ä" z u t	closet.
3	-z u t	exit, exquisite, opposite, perquisite, prerequisite, requisite, revisit, transit, visit.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: topis.
	Words within the letters "i-o-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: opts, piso, pits, pois, post, pots, spit, spot, stop, tips, topi, tops.
	-2 letters: its, ops, opt, pis, pit, poi, pot, psi, sip, sit, sop, sot, tip, tis, top.
	-3 letters: is, it, op, os, pi, si, so, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "i-o-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: impost, optics, patios, patois, picots, pilots, pinots, pintos, pistol, piston, pitons, pivots, points, posits, postin, potsie, prosit, ptosis, ripost, sopite, spigot, spinto, spoilt, topics, tripos.
	+2 letters: airpost, apostil, atopies, copyist, deposit, disport, dopiest, exposit, hipshot, impasto, imports, imposts, inkpots, isotope, isotopy, isotype, misstop, mopiest, ophites, opiates, optimes, options, photics, pigouts, pintoes, piolets, piosity, pistole, pistols, pistons, piteous, podites, poetics, poetise, pointes, pokiest, pollist, poloist, pontils, posited, postfix, posting, postins, potions, potpies, potsies, potties, probits, profits, prostie, protist, psoatic, reposit, riposte, riposts, ripstop, ropiest, slipout, sophist, sopited, sopites, spigots, spinout, spintos, sportif, spotlit, stoping, tipoffs, tiptoes, tiptops, topsail, topside, topsoil, topspin, torpids, tripods, tropics, tropins, tropism, utopias, utopism, utopist.
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