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Portmanteau
- noun - a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
- a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
Portraitist
- noun - a painter or drawer of portraits
Portraiture
- noun - a word picture of a person's appearance and character
- the activity of making portraits
Portrayable
- unknown - able to be depicted
Portrayings
- noun - a representation by picture or portraiture
Portwatcher
- noun - a watchman on a wharf
Positioners
- noun - (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track
Positioning
- verb - cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
- causing to fall into line or into position
- 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 children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
- the act of putting something in a certain place
Positivisms
- noun - a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
- the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
Positivists
- noun - someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes