place
plays
- n a point located with respect to surface features of some region
this is a nice place for a picnic - n any area set aside for a particular purpose
who owns this place? - n 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 - n a general vicinity
He comes from a place near Chicago - n the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
took his place - n a particular situation
If you were in my place what would you do? - n where you live at a particular time
your place or mine? - n a job in an organization
- n the particular portion of space occupied by something
he put the lamp back in its place - n proper or designated social situation
he overstepped his place - n a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
he sat in someone else's place - n the passage that is being read
he lost his place on the page - n proper or appropriate position or location
a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen - n a public square with room for pedestrians
- n an item on a list or in a sequence
in the second place - n a blank area
- v put into a certain place or abstract location
- v place somebody in a particular situation or location
he was placed on probation - v assign a rank or rating to
- v assign a location to
- v to arrange for
place a phone call
place a bet - v take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- v intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- v recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- v assign to (a job or a home)
- v locate
- v estimate
- v identify the location or place of
- v make an investment
- v assign to a station
- v finish second or better in a horse or dog race
he bet $2 on number six to place - v sing a note with the correct pitch
- As Place looked for information in online forums, he found that women were used to treating breast cancer sites as women's-only safehouses, a place to discuss their bodies with .
- They mingle with the fashionably dressed twentysomethings who flock here because Eslite has become Taipei's place to be seen.
- After the family nixed the idea of burying Michael Jackson at Neverland, they decided on a resting place at a celebrity-filled mausoleum in Glendale, Calif.