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Establish Position - Basketball (gambling) and Pregnant (medicine)


Establish Position - Basketball (gambling)


To have the feet firmly planted on the floor, occupying an area, before the offensive player arrives in that area. The difference between blocking and charging is whether the defender has established position.

Pregnant (medicine)


pregnant


1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." . " A pregnant brevity."

3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. "Wherein the pregnant enemy does much." (Shak) Pregnant construction, one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.

Origin: L. Praegnans, -antis; prae = before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. Pregnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.

A pregnant woman.

Source: Websters Dictionary