Definition of Place

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Definition of Place

Place

The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third.

To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially.

To place-kick ( a goal).

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.

A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.

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.

Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.

Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).

A definite position or passage of a document.

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.

Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.

Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.

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.

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.

To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.

To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.

To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

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Place Quotations

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain

Place Translations

place in Afrikaans is plek, plaas, sit
place in Dutch is plaats, oord, lokaal, plek
place in Finnish is panna, huone, paikka
place in German is Platz, unterbringen, Platz, stellen, Ort
place in Italian is mettere, spazio, ente, mettere, posto
place in Latin is constituo, addo, positus, pono posui positum
place in Norwegian is plass
place in Spanish is sentar, meter, sitio

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