All 21 Uses
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- Neth told him that she had worked in Poipet and was friends with an American journalist, but she balked at acknowledging that she had been a prostitute—or that she had tested positive for HIV.†
Chpt 2positive = indicating that a condition was found
- Sunitha arranged for Abbas to be tested for HIV; she tested positive, so Sunitha is trying to find her an HIV-positive man to marry.†
Chpt 3 *
- Sunitha arranged for Abbas to be tested for HIV; she tested positive, so Sunitha is trying to find her an HIV-positive man to marry.†
Chpt 3
- Thabang's mother, Gertrude Tobela, tested positive, apparently after getting the disease from her husband, and then infected her youngest child, Victor, during childbirth.†
Chpt 8
- We thus regard the Pentecostal boom with some suspicion, but without doubt it also has a positive impact on the role of women.†
Chpt 8 *positive = good or beneficial
- "It became clear that we, as a very privileged community, needed to be a bigger, more positive force in the world," Grijalva recalled.†
Chpt 1 *
- Likewise, one of George W. Bush's few positive international legacies was a big push against trafficking.†
Chpt 2
- Half an hour later, they handed her a slip of paper: The test was positive for HIV.†
Chpt 2
- But to take that route, Neth would have to tell Sothea that she was HIV positive and had contracted the disease as a prostitute.†
Chpt 2
- Abbas now works in this shelter and is trying to find a man who is HIV positive, as she is, to marry.†
Chpt 3
- And the rest of the world might also hold a more positive view of Americans.†
Chpt 5
- A nurse consulted Prudence's records and reported back that her blood was type A, Rh positive.†
Chpt 7
- "I'm A positive," Nick whispered to Naka.†
Chpt 7
- I'm A positive and he's O positive.†
Chpt 7
- I'm A positive and he's O positive.†
Chpt 7
- HIV is a special problem for women, in part because of biology: Women are about twice as likely to be infected during heterosexual sex with an HIV-positive partner as men are.†
Chpt 8
- As Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian put it in a 2008 article in The Review of Economics and Statistics: We find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth.†
Chpt 10
- Every other villager would immediately realize that they were HIV-positive and would ostracize them.†
Chpt 10
- Communism after the 1949 revolution was brutal in China, leading to tens of millions of deaths by famine or repression, but its single most positive legacy was the emancipation of women.†
Chpt 12
- Instead, it relentlessly tries to stay positive, preparing people to make their own decisions.†
Chpt 13 *
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- "And I'm O positive—a universal donor," Naka whispered back.†
Chpt 7 *
Definitions:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)
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(positive as in: had a positive effect) good or beneficial
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(positive as in: positive feedback from my boss) approval or agreement
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(positive as in: a positive attitude) optimistic (expecting or focusing on good things); or agreeable
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(positive as in: The test came back positive.) found a condition or substance to be present
indicating the presence of something being tested for -- especially a disease, condition, or substance -
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(positive as in: a positive number) greater than zero (of a number)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for less common meanings of positive including some in the fields of electricity, physics, chemistry, medicine, philosophy, and grammar. Note that most all senses of positive indicate that something is good or present.