Place
[pleɪs] or [ples]
Definition
(noun.) an abstract mental location; 'he has a special place in my thoughts'; 'a place in my heart'; 'a political system with no place for the less prominent groups'.
(noun.) the passage that is being read; 'he lost his place on the page'.
(noun.) an item on a list or in a sequence; 'in the second place'; 'moved from third to fifth position'.
(noun.) any area set aside for a particular purpose; 'who owns this place?'; 'the president was concerned about the property across from the White House'.
(noun.) a general vicinity; 'He comes from a place near Chicago'.
(noun.) a particular situation; 'If you were in my place what would you do?'.
(noun.) proper or designated social situation; 'he overstepped his place'; 'the responsibilities of a man in his station'; 'married above her station'.
(noun.) proper or appropriate position or location; 'a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen'.
(verb.) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; 'Jerry came in third in the Marathon'.
(verb.) to arrange for; 'place a phone call'; 'place a bet'.
(verb.) sing a note with the correct pitch.
(verb.) finish second or better in a horse or dog race; 'he bet $2 on number six to place'.
(verb.) place somebody in a particular situation or location; 'he was placed on probation'.
(verb.) assign to (a job or a home).
(verb.) identify the location or place of; 'We localized the source of the infection'.
(verb.) estimate; 'We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.'.
Edited by Ethelred--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
(n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
(n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
(n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
(n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
(n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
(n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
(n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
(n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
(n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
(n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
(n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
(n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
(n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
Edited by Antony
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Situation, position, locality, location, station, spot, site, ground.[2]. Office, charge, function, employment, post.[3]. Rank, standing, grade, condition, occupation, calling.[4]. Mansion, residence, abode, dwelling seat.[5]. Town, village, city.
v. a. [1]. Put, set, station, lay, settle, deposit, commit, locate, seat, fix, establish, dispose, arrange.[2]. Invest, put at interest.
Edited by Josie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Locate, assign, fix, establish, settle, attribute, situate
ANT:Disturb, remove, unsettle, disarrange, disestablish, misplace, misattribute,misassign, uproot, transplant, extirpate, eradicate, transport
Edited by Fergus
Definition
n. a broad way in a city: an open space used for a particular purpose: a particular locality: a town: room to dwell sit or stand in: the position held by anybody employment office a situation: a mansion with its grounds: proper position or dignity priority in such: stead: passage in a book: a topic matter of discourse: in sporting contests position among the first three.—v.t. to put in any place or condition: to find a home for: to settle: to lend: invest: to ascribe.—n. Place′-hunt′er one who seeks eagerly official position or public office.—adj. Place′less without place or office.—ns. Place′man one who has a place or office under a government:—pl. Place′men; Place′ment placing or setting; Place′-mong′er one who traffics in appointments to places; Place′-name the name of a place or locality: a local name; Plac′er.—Give place to make room to yield; Have place to have existence; In place in position: opportune; Out of place inappropriate unseasonable; Take place to come to pass: to take precedence of.
Typed by Benjamin
Examples
- The understanding of the place of theory in life is a comparatively new one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In those in which they take place, and are in farm, there are many local duties which do not extend beyond a particular town or district. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Is there really such a place? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I asked at once that Sigel might be relieved, and some one else put in his place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They have been looking at the house in St. Peter's Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt's; it belongs to him, and he is putting it nicely in repair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Go before me and show me all those dreadful places. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But there was a systematic hunt for the copies of Holy Writ, and in many places a systematic destruction of Christian churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A brilliant liter ary man of the present day considers that places in the first ranks of literature are reserved for the doctrinally heterodox. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You have not come up to London, of all places in the world, to tell us that, my dear Sir, have you? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is no coffin in that tomb; and may it be many, many years, before another name is placed above it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The rods to be welded are placed in clamps C C′, C being connected with one terminal of the secondary conductor S, and the movable clamp C′ with the other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oh, what a trust is to be placed in that man's hands to-morrow! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If a close coil of wire is suspended between the poles of a strong horseshoe magnet, it will not assume any characteristic position but will remain wherever placed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Nothing in my powers or instinct placed me amongst this brave band. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The only independent one among them, he warned her that she was doing too much for this man, and was placing herself too unreservedly in his power. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Byllesby and the late Luther Stieringer, was completed and in operation within six weeks after the placing of the order. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Then placing the boat at one end of the trough, the weight would draw it through the water to the other. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Hor Vastus, I said, placing my hand upon his shoulder, you know best the promptings of your own heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Clint