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[Appendix:Variations of "place"]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [plās] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], conflation of [en] and [en], both from [en], from [en],
shortening of [grc], from [en], extended form of [ine-pro]. Displaced native
[ang], [ang], and [ang]. Compare also [en], [fy], [nl]. [en].
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] An area ; somewhere within an area .
1. An open space , _particularly_ a city square , market square , or courtyard .
2. * [IV]
3. [en] A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square , or plaza of the same name.
4. An inhabited area : a village , town , or city .
5. Any area of the earth : a region .
6. * [chapter=22]
7. The area one occupies , _particularly_ somewhere to sit .
8. The area where one live s: one 's home , _formerly_ [en] country estate s and farm s.
9. * [text=My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her " PLACE " in Lincolnshire.]
10. An area of the body, especially the skin .
11. [en] An area to urinate and defecate : an outhouse or lavatory .
12. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1901 | author=John Stephen Farmer; et al | title=Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present | volume=V | page=220
|passage=_Place_,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1951 | author=w:William Styron | title=w:Lie Down in Darkness | chapter=ii | page=59
|passage=‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...<br>‘She
means the little girls room.’}}
1. [en] An area to fight : a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle .
1. A location or position in space .
2. * [act=II]
3. * [book=2]
4. * [chapter=5]
5. * [en]
6. A particular location in a book or document , _particularly_ the current location of a reader
7. [en] A passage or extract from a book or document .
8. [en] A topic .
9. A state of mind .
10. [en] A chess position ; a square of the chessboard .
11. [en] A responsibility or position in an organization .
1. A role or purpose ; a station .
2. * [II]
3. * {{ RQ:Shakespeare Measure | I | i
|passage=_Escalus_.Esc.I shall desire you, Sir, to giue me leaue<br>To haue
free speech with you; and it concernes me<br>To looke into the bottome of my
PLACE :<br>A powre I haue, but of what strength and nature,<br>I am not yet
instructed.}}
1. * [chapter=Of Great Place]
2. * [en]
3. The position of a contestant in a competition .
4. [en] The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
5. The position as a member of a sports team .
1. [en] A fortified position : a fortress , citadel , or walled town .
2. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
3. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
4. * A. 1788 , Mather Byles, quoted in _The Life of James Otis_ by William Tudor
5. *: In the first PLACE , I do not understand politics; in the second PLACE , you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third PLACE , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion [...]
6. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
7. * [John]
***** Synonyms
- [market square] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [somewhere to sit] [en]
- [outhouse or lavatory] _See_ THESAURUS:BATHROOM
- [location] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [frame of mind] [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Hyponyms
[en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|by-place|Elmwood Place|hiding place|in place|in place of|in places
|no place,noplace|No Place|jumping-off place|parking place|place of birth|take
the place of |placeful|place-kick|burial place|burial-place|incorporated
place|learn one's place|place shifting|unincorporated place| change
place,change places
|placeless|showplace|sticking-place|workplace|abiding-place|all dressed up
with no place to go|all over the place like a mad woman's custard|another
place|as if someone owns the place|better place|between a rock and a hard
place|census-designated place|come from the right
place|common-place|defector-in-place|degree place|don't spend it all in one
place|dwelling-place|fall about the place|fall into place|find one's
place|hair out of place|happy place|have one's heart in the right
place|hiding-place|high place|in the right place at the right time|in the
wrong place at the wrong time|know one's place |landing place|age in
place|Delivered At Place|into place |lightning never strikes twice in the same
place|like one owns the place|like someone owns the place|market
place|necessary place|non-place|noun of place|out-of-place|pick and
place|place an order|place cell|place holder|place importance on|place in the
sun|place kick|place money|place of business|place of honor|place one's cards
on the table|place setting|place to be|place value|place
word|place-hunter|place-name|polling place|preposition of place|pride of
place|public place|put oneself in someone's place|put someone in their
place|resting-place|safe place|sense of place|shelter in
place|shelter-in-place|sticking place|take one's place|take someone's
place|the bad place|the darkest place is under the candlestick|there is a time
and place for everything|there's no place like home|third place|place
blindness|unity of place|valet-de-place|watering place|wide place in the
road|work-place|your place or mine|all dressed up and no place to go|all over
the place|come from a good place|friends in high places|in the first place|out
of place|place card|place mat|place name|place of articulation|place of
decimals|place of worship|the other place| lightning does not strike twice in
the same place|lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place|there is a
place and time for everything|there's a place and time for everything|there's
a time and a place for everything|there's a time and place for
everything|time-manner-place|give place|take
place|anyplace|birthplace|buryingplace|businessplace|cyberplace|emplace|everyplace|farmplace|fireplace|hearthplace|homeplace|interplace|letterplace|marketplace|midplace|misplace|nonplace|outplace|overplace|partyplace|placeability|placeable|placeblog|placegetter|placegetting|placeholder|placeholding|placekick|placemaker|placemaking|placeman|placemark|placemarker|placemonger|placename|placeness|placepot|placeshift|placeshifting|placial|postplace|preplace|replace|someplace|subplace|transplace|underplace|unplace|unplaceable|washplace}}
***** Descendants
- [pis]
- [tpi]
***** Translations
[location, position] {{multitrans|data=
- Ainu: [ain]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Ashkun: [ask]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az] [obsolete] , [az] , [az] [obsolete]
- Bala: [tuw-bal]
- Baluchi: [bal]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Eastern Khanty: [kca-eas]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Even: [eve] , [eve]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [slang] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht] , [ht]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ibanag: [ibg]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isnag: [isd]
- Istro-Romanian: [ruo]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [affix] [ja] , [space science] [ja] , [room] [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Jersey Dutch: [gmw-jdt]
- Kamkata-viri: [bsh]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lü: [khb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc] , [mnc]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Mingrelian: [xmf]
- Mongolian:
- Moore: [mos]
- Mwali Comorian: [wlc]
- Mwani: [wmw]
- Nanai: [gld] , [gld]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Northern Thai: [nod]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Rwanda-Rundi: [rw]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [disused]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tocharian B: [txb] , [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi] , [tpi]
- Tumbuka: [tum]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zhuang: [za] , [za]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn] , [nmn]
[trans-bottom]
[open space, courtyard, market square]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] [archaic stress and gender]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] [open place] , [fi] [market place or town square]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [market square] [ja]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Waigali: [wbk]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[street, sometimes surrounding a public place]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[inhabited area: a village, town, or city]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[any area of the earth]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [region]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Yakut: [sah]
[trans-bottom]
[area one occupies, particularly for sitting]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [seat]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] ; [sv] , [sv] [place to sit] ; [sv] [place to stand] , [sv] [place to lie] , [sv] [place to sleep]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[house or home]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] [home] ; [fi] [slang] , [fi] [home, informally] ; [fi] [house] ; [fi] [cabin, house, esp. vacation home]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[area of the skin]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
[trans-bottom]
[euphemism: outhouse or lavatory]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[area to fight]
[particular location in a book or document]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
[trans-bottom]
[passage or extract from a book or document]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[rhetoric: topic]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[frame of mind]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[chess: square of the chessboard]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[role or purpose, station]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [role] [ja] , [ja] , [station] [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [rank of a job station] [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [opportunity of job station] [ja] , [ja]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [post] , [ru]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[the position of a contestant in a competition]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[horse-racing: position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially
the second position] [trans-bottom]
[the position as a member of a team]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[fortified position: fortress, citadel or walled town]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[numeric: the column counting a certain quantity]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[ordinal relation]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] , [fi] etc. [in the first, second, etc. place]
- Ukrainian: [uk] [по-перше - in the first place; по-друге - in the second place; etc.]
[trans-bottom]
[reception; effect]
- Finnish: [fi] [Bible] ; [fi]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Danish: [da] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] [for vehicles]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [public] [io] , [someone] [io]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] ; [ja] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->
- Kurdish:
- Lithuanian: [1] [lt] , [3] [lt]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te] , [te] ; [te] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->, [te] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->, [te] < !-- Was under "group of houses" -->
- Volapük: [vo]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from the noun (see above).
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To put (someone or something) in a specific location .
2. * [book=I]
3. * [chapter=XIX]
4. * [en]
5. [en] To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ( [often followed by an ordinal] ).
1. [en] To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
6. [en] To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
7. [en] To vouch for someone's alibi.
8. [en] To sing (a note) with the correct pitch .
9. [en] To make .
10. * [en]
11. [en] To bet .
12. [en] To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job , or a home for an animal for adoption , etc.
13. [en] To place-kick (a goal ).
14. [en] To assign (more or less value) to something.
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
***** Synonyms
- [to achieve a certain position] [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to put in a specific location] {{multitrans|data=
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur] , [fur]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Konkani: [kok]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Ladin: [lld]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] [out of reach/beyond reach] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[to earn a given spot in a competition]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] -se, [ca] -se, [ca] -se
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[passive: to rank at (a certain position)]
- Catalan: [ca] -se, [ca] -se, [ca] -se
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[to sing (a note) with the correct pitch]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[to arrange for, make (a bet)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] -s'hi
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to recruit or match an appropriate person for a job]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] [match an appropriate person] ; [ca] , [ca] [recruit a new person]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [phrase] [ja] , [ja]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
}} [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Ido: [1] [io] , [2] [io] , [5] [io]
- Korean: [ko] , from [ko]
- Mandarin: [cmn]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Czech
*** Alternative forms
- [cs]
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
- [cs]
*** Noun
[cs]
1. [cs]
*** Anagrams
- [cs]
** Franco-Provençal
*** Alternative forms
[2]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
- [frp]
[col-bottom]
*** Etymology
[frp].
*** Noun
[f] [frp]
1. plaza , public square
2. [en] , location
*** References
- [R:frp:DFP]
- [21218]
*** Further information
- [in mezzo alla piazza]
- [une place]
- [9]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Etymology 1
[fr], from [fr], from [fr].
**** Noun
[f]
1. [en] , square , plaza , piazza
2. place, space , room
3. place, seat
***** Derived terms
{{col3|fr |à la place |aéroplace |déplacer |en lieu et place |en place |faire
du sur place |faire place |mettre en place |mise en place |monoplace
|multiplace |place d'armes |place d'honneur |place forte |placement |placer
|placet |placette |placier |prendre place |qui part à la chasse perd sa place
|remettre à sa place |remplacer |se mettre à la place |sur place |surplace
|tenir en place }}
***** Descendants
- [ht] [with definite article [ht]]
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
*** Etymology 2
[nonlemma]
**** Verb
[fr]
1. [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr]
[fr]
** Interlingua
*** Verb
[ia]
1. [plac]
** Latin
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
From [enm] and [enm], both from [enm], from [enm].
**** Alternative forms
- [enm]
**** Pronunciation
- [enm]
**** Noun
[enm-noun]
1. A [en] , area or spot ; a part of the Earth or universe :
1. An inhabited [en] [such as a country , town etc.]
2. A battlefield ; a location of fighting .
3. An estate or property ; a house or building [often with its surrounds] .
4. [enm] A city square , market square , or courtyard .
2. A location or position in or on a larger space [occupied by something or someone] :
1. An area of the body [either of an organ or of the skin]
2. A location in or passage from a written document .
3. [enm] The place of a digit in a number written with Arabic numeral s.
3. A [en] , station , or position ; an appropriate or designated spot :
1. The usual location or [en] of something [e.g. an animal's dwelling] .
2. A position in a hierarchy ; rank , status , or level .
3. A favourable or propitious occasion ; an opportunity .
4. Extent , space [in two or three dimensions]
***** Related terms
- [enm]
***** Descendants
- [en] [dialectal [en]]
- [pis]
- [tpi]
- [sco]
***** References
- [plāce]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
[enm]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro]
*** Etymology
From [fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [fro]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] ; location
**** Descendants
[top2]
- [roa-fcm]
- [fr]
- [ht] [with definite article [ht]]
- [bor=1]
- [nrf] [through Old Northern French [fro]]
- [wa]
- [bor=1] [through Anglo-Norman]
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
- [de] [see desc]
- [lb]
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
- [da]
- [fo]
- [no]
- [gmq-osw]
- [sv] < !--
- [gmq-bot] -->
- [enm]
- [bor=1]
- [cy]
[bottom]
*** References
- [supplement=1]
- [R:Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub]
** Polish
*** Pronunciation
[a=LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-place.wav]
*** Noun
[pl]
1. [pl]
** Romanian
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
*** Verb
[ro]
1. [ro]
** Spanish
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Verb
[es]
1. [placer]