place
IPA: pɫˈeɪs
noun
- (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
- A location or position in space.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- A state of mind.
- (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
- (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive, passive voice) To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- (transitive) To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
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Examples of "place" in Sentences
- The place is located in the botanical region.
- The wedding takes place at the Colonnade room.
- The wedding room is a favourite place for couples.
- The tripod is placed in the location where it is needed.
- This placed the debenture holders in a very strong position.
- You are placed in the position of defending the indefensible.
- The rack was popularly placed in a corner of the living room.
- Katy was placed in an invidious position, nobody denies that.
- "The lowest place, _the lowest place_, I can abide no other."
- In the image, is the location of the lineament in the right place
- The article to be loaded is placed on the pedestal in the uppermost position.
- Moving on happy place, happy place sittin here eating frozen snickers bars and drinking mountain dew and talking on the phone to my friend Anthony.
- The principal place of resort of this class is Marina Rotche, lying about two versts from Moscow, and thither I drove, attended by a _valet de place_.
- But Barzillai felt, and felt rightly, that in his circumstances, the place in which he had been brought up -- "_his own place_" -- was the best place for him.
- Arras was a famous Jacobin centre, and from the balcony of this theatre, Lebon, one of the Jacobins, directed the executions, which took place abundantly on the pretty _place_.
- And as it gets hold of you it crowds your mind and heart and life till every other is either crowded out, or crowded to a lower place; _out_, if it jars; _lower place_, if it agrees, for every agreeing bit yields to the lead of this tremendous message.
- The trite maxim, * A place for everything, and everything in its place*, so commends itself to the sense of fitness, as hardly to need exposition or enforcement; yet while no maxim is more generally admitted, scarce any is so frequently violated in practice.
- From time to time even now readjustments are made in the details of all three indexes, the fossil, the modern, and the embryonic, the method of rearrangement being charmingly simple: _just taking a card out of one place and putting it into another place_ where we may think it more properly belongs.
- The name of the place, -- or rather neighborhood, for I don't know where the _place_ actually is -- there are three places, and they are all four or five miles off -- Mill Village, and Pemunk, and Sandon; the name of the neighborhood, -- Brickfield Farms, comes from there having been brickmaking done here at one time; but it was given up.