place

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7 now that she's opening her own place.

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Quick take

a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of place gathered in one view.

noun

a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"

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any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House"

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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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for place.

noun

a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"

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any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House"

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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"

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a general vicinity; "He comes from a place near Chicago"

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the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"

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a particular situation; "If you were in my place what would you do?"

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where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"

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a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"

See also: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, situation

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the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"

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proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station"

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a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place"

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the passage that is being read; "he lost his place on the page"

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proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"

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a public square with room for pedestrians; "they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place"

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an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"

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a blank area; "write your name in the space provided"

verb

put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

verb

place somebody in a particular situation or location; "he was placed on probation"

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assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

See also: rate, rank, range, order, grade

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assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"

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to arrange for; "place a phone call"; "place a bet"

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take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"

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intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

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recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster"

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assign to (a job or a home)

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locate; "The film is set in Africa"

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estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

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identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection"

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make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

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assign to a station

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finish second or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to place"

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sing a note with the correct pitch

Example sentences

7 now that she's opening her own place.

" And nobody stopped you, because who can argue with making the world a better place?

So thank you Paul for spending so much time making Hacker News such a great place to visit each day.

At least the tech gentrifiers will actually improve the fucking place, unlike these leeches!

But when the next hot platform or architecture or whatever comes out you get tired of running in exactly the same place.

A consultancy or something where you get to work on different things in different places on short engagements.

Back in the original dot-com bubble, I worked at a place that had the most amazing coffee machine I've ever seen.

Are you saying you have no system in place to monitor if transactions execute successfully?

If copyright should be used to defeat that sort of project, then it undercuts the very rationale upon which it exists in the first place.

In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general.

It's a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn't just look up the details of all the "Web" technologies.

No one is going to "fall in love" with your app if your app shouldn't exist in the first place because the old-school solution provided a superior experience.

The signal-to-noise ratio has dropped slightly compared to when I started reading about four years ago, but this is still a great place for technical discussion.

And why should this be relevant to board service?Politics, religion, and social worldviews divide people and have no place as limiting tests in a business environment.

If a product is rejected, it's expected to be replaced immediately without interrupting the flow of products heading out to new customers.

Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.- monitoring and QA are the same thing.

The answer, as de Tocqueville noted years ago, is not to place faith in leaders but rather to take personal responsibility in our lives and to curtail the powers of those who govern.

'Between the crashed helicopter, burned animal stalls, and bullet marks everywhere, I can safely say I will not be utilizing AirBnB again - the place is completely trashed', Haddad told us"

This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the people who created the N9 in the first place.

Below, Babuskov raised the point that the endorsement system will obstruct useful back-and-forth discussions between sub-kilokarma users in buried threads that often takes the place of a private messaging system on HN.