nine vs position

nine

noun
  • A playing card with nine pips. 

  • A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players). 

  • The digit or figure 9. 

  • A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. 

  • A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.). 

num
  • Describing a group or set with nine elements. 

  • A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten. 

position

noun
  • The order in which players are seated around the table. 

  • A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price. 

  • The full state of a chess game at any given turn. 

  • A situation suitable to perform some action. 

  • A status or rank. 

  • A place or location. 

  • A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error. 

  • An opinion, stand, or stance. 

  • A posture. 

  • A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player. 

  • A post of employment; a job. 

  • An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution. 

verb
  • To put into place. 

How often have the words nine and position occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )