| query | If you p____ an order for a product or for a meal, you ask for it to be sent or brought to you.If you place an order for a product or for a meal, you ask for it to be sent or brought to you. It is a good idea to place your order well in advance. Before placing your order for a meal, study the menu. |
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| word | place |
| full-definition | noun A place is any point, building, area, town, or country. ...Temple Mount, the place where the Temple actually stood. ...a list of museums and places of interest. We're going to a place called Mont-St-Jean. ...the opportunity to visit new places. The best place to catch fish on a canal is close to a lock. The pain is always in the same place. You can use the place to refer to the point, building, area, town, or country that you have already mentioned . Except for the remarkably tidy kitchen, the place was a mess. For a ruin it was in good condition, as though the place was still being used. You can refer to somewhere that provides a service, such as a hotel, restaurant, or institution, as a particular kind of place . He found a bed-and-breakfast place. We discovered some superb places to eat. My hospital is one of many places that benefited from the queen's support. Place can be used after 'any', 'no', 'some', or 'every' to mean ' anywhere ', ' nowhere ', 'somewhere', or ' everywhere '. The poor guy obviously didn't have any place to go for Easter. Why not go out and see if there's some place we can dance? You can refer to the position where something belongs, or where it is supposed to be, as its place . He returned the album to its place on the shelf. He returned to his place on the sofa. A place is a seat or position that is available for someone to occupy. He walked back to the table and sat at the nearest of two empty places. I found a place to park beside a station wagon. Someone's or something's place in a society, system, or situation is their position in relation to other people or things. They want to see more women take their place higher up the corporate or professional ladder. ...the important place of Christianity in our national culture. Your place in a race or competition is your position in relation to the other competitors . If you are in first place, you are ahead of all the other competitors. He won third place in the Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants awards. He has risen to second place in the opinion polls. If you get a place in a team, on a committee, or on a course of study, for example, you are accepted as a member of the team or committee or as a student on the course. He has found a place in the first team. All the candidates won places on the ruling council. I eventually got a place at York University. They should be in residential care but there are no places available. To book your place fill in the coupon on page 187 and return it by 1st October. A good place to do something in a situation or activity is a good time or stage at which to do it. It seemed an appropriate place to end somehow. This is not the place for a lengthy discussion. Your place is the house or flat where you live. Let's all go back to my place! He kept encouraging Rosie to find a place of her own. Your place in a book or speech is the point you have reached in reading the book or making the speech. ...her finger marking her place in the book. He lost his place in his notes. If you say how many decimal places there are in a number, you are saying how many numbers there are to the right of the decimal point. A pocket calculator only works to eight decimal places. adverb If you go places, you visit pleasant or interesting places. I don't have money to go places. People were talking to him, listening to him, taking him places. verb If you place something somewhere, you put it in a particular position, especially in a careful, firm, or deliberate way. Brand folded it in his handkerchief and placed it in the inside pocket of his jacket. Chairs were hastily placed in rows for the parents. To place a person or thing in a particular state means to cause them to be in it. Widespread protests have placed the President under serious pressure. The crisis could well place the relationship at risk. The remaining 30 percent of each army will be placed under U.N. control. You can use place instead of 'put' or ' lay ' in certain expressions where the meaning is carried by the following noun. For example, if you place emphasis on something, you emphasize it, and if you place the blame on someone, you blame them. We should teach the young by placing responsibility on them. He placed great emphasis on the importance of family life and ties. She seemed to be placing most of the blame on her mother. His government is placing its faith in international diplomacy. If you place someone or something in a particular class or group, you label or judge them in that way. You take a simple written and verbal test so you can be placed in the appropriate class. This logic places stupidity on the same level as intelligence. If a competitor is placed first, second, or last, for example, that is their position at the end of a race or competition. In American English, be placed often means 'finish in second position'. I had been placed 2nd and 3rd a few times but had never won. Second-placed Auxerre suffered a surprising 2-0 home defeat to Nantes. If you place an order for a product or for a meal, you ask for it to be sent or brought to you. It is a good idea to place your order well in advance. Before placing your order for a meal, study the menu. If you place an advertisement in a newspaper, you arrange for the advertisement to appear in the newspaper. They placed an advertisement in the local paper for a secretary. If you place a phone call to a particular place, you give the telephone operator the number of the person you want to speak to and ask them to connect you. I'd like to place an overseas call. If you place a bet, you bet money on something. For this race, though, he had already placed a bet on one of the horses. If an agency or organization places someone, it finds them a job or somewhere to live. In 1861, they managed to place fourteen women in paid positions in the colonies. In cases where it proves difficult to place a child, the reception centre provides long-term care. If you say that you cannot place someone, you mean that you recognize them but cannot remember exactly who they are or where you have met them before. Something about the man was familiar, although I could not immediately place him. It was a voice he recognized, though he could not immediately place it. |
| inflections | placesplacingplaced |
| cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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