Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A position from which things are considered or judged; a point of view.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The point at which one stands; especially, the position from which one's observations are taken and one's opinions formed or delivered; the point of view; the mental situation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Point of view ;perspective
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mental position from which things are viewed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And I wouldn't suggest that anything we're putting into our backlog today is much difference from a term standpoint of what we've historically seen.
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"There was nothing similar from a new title standpoint to drive growth over those numbers," said Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America.
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From a short term standpoint investors should have taken some profits from Bank of America and Citigroup today as the stocks will only continue the rally on terrific news from Bernanke.
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"From a medium-term standpoint, that is about twelve-eighteen months, I am still positive on the markets."
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A: From a medium-term standpoint, that is about twelve-eighteen months, I am still positive on the markets.
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A: From a medium-term standpoint, that is about twelve-eighteen months, I am still positive on the markets.
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A: From a medium-term standpoint, that is about twelve-eighteen months, I am still positive on the markets.
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"From a medium-term standpoint, that is about twelve-eighteen months, I am still positive on the markets."
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"From a medium-term standpoint, that is about twelve-eighteen months, I am still positive on the markets."
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Another good book from a possible gaming standpoint is “House to House: An Epic Memoir of War” by SSG David Bellavia, about the nasty urban combat he was part of during the battle of Fallujah in 2004.
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The idea that knowledge might be situated, known as ‘standpoint epistemology’, can be helpfully understood in contrast to the traditional approach to knowledge that Descartes is representative of.
For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays 2025
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