place
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
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(countable, uncountable)A location or position in space.
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(countable, uncountable)A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
I lost my place when you interrupted me.
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A passage or extract from a book or document.
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(countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable)A topic.
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(countable, uncountable)A state of mind.
I'm in a strange place at the moment.
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)(chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
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(social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
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(countable, uncountable)Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
three decimal places; the hundreds place
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(countable, uncountable)Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
That's what I said in the first place!
a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor 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 […]
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(countable, uncountable)Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
He placed the glass on the table.
to place someone on a pedestal
Đồng nghĩa: lay, lay down, put down, set down, deposit, have, set
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(ergative)To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
The Cowboys placed third in the league.
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
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(transitive)To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
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(transitive)To vouch for someone's alibi.
The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.
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(transitive)To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
Đồng nghĩa: reach
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(transitive)(transitive, in collocations) To make.
to place a call
to place an order
to place an ad in the newspaper
to place a bid
to place a bet
to place a wager
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(transitive)To bet.
I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
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(transitive)To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
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(transitive)(sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
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(transitive)To assign (more or less value) to something.
My workplace places a high premium on team spirit.
She places little value on religion.
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ine-pro From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæċe (place, an open space, street) and Old French place (place, an open space), both from Latin platēa (plaza, wide street), from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα, shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (broad way), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (to spread), extended form of *pleh₂- (flat). Displaced native stōw, stede (partially), and -ern.