| 释义 |
place /plās/ noun- A portion of space
- A portion of the earth's surface, or any surface
- A position in space, or on the earth's surface, or in any system, order, or arrangement
- A building, room, piece of ground, etc, assigned to some purpose (eg place of business, entertainment, worship)
- A particular locality
- A town, village, etc
- A dwelling or home
- A mansion with its grounds
- A battlefield (obsolete)
- A fortress, fortified town (obsolete)
- An open space in a town, a market-place or square
- (with cap) used in street names esp for a row or group of houses, a short street or a circus
- A seat or accommodation in a theatre, train, at table, etc
- Space occupied
- Room
- The position held by anybody, employment, office, a situation, esp under government or in domestic service
- Due or proper position or dignity
- That which is incumbent on one
- Precedence
- Position in a series
- High rank
- Position attained in a competition or assigned by criticism
- Position among the first three in a race
- Stead
- Pitch reached by a bird of prey (obsolete except in pride of place, qv)
- (in reading-matter, narrative, conversation, etc) the point which the reader or speaker has reached when he stops or is interrupted
- A topic, matter of discourse (obsolete)
- A passage in a book (obsolete)
transitive verb- To put in any place
- To assign to a place
- To find a place, home, job, publisher, etc, for
- To find a buyer for (usu a large quantity of stocks or shares; commerce)
- To propose, lay or put (with before)
- To induct
- To appoint
- To identify
- To invest
- To arrange (a loan, bet, etc)
- To put (trust, etc, in)
- To state the finishing positions of (the competitors, esp the first three) in a race or competition
- To ascribe (with to; archaic)
intransitive verb (esp US)- To finish a race or competition (in a specified position)
- To finish a race in second (if otherwise unspecified) position (horse-racing)
ORIGIN: Partly OE (Northumbrian) plæce market-place, but mainly Fr place, both from L platea, from Gr plateia (hodos) broad (street) placed adjective - Set in place or in a place
- Having a place
- Among the first three in a race
- Inducted to a position or office
placeˈless adjective Without place or office placeˈment noun - Placing or setting
- Assigning to places
- Assigning to a job
- A temporary job providing work experience, esp for someone on a training course
placˈer noun placˈing noun - Position, esp a finishing position in a race or competition
- The process of finding an intermediary buyer for large numbers of (usu newly issued) shares, etc (commerce)
place card noun A card placed before each setting on the table at a banquet, formal dinner, etc, with the name of the person who is to sit there placeˈholder noun A symbol representing a missing term or quantity in a mathematical expression placeˈ-hunter noun (archaic) Someone who covets and strives after a public post place kick noun (in rugby, etc) a kick made when the ball has been placed on the ground for that purpose placeˈ-kicker noun placeˈman noun (pl placeˈmen) Someone who has a place or office under a government, esp if gained by selfishness or ambition place mat noun A table mat set at a person's place setting placeˈ-monger noun Someone who traffics in appointments to places place name noun A geographical proper name place setting noun Each person's set of crockery, cutlery and glassware as used at a dining table place value noun The value that a digit has because of the position that it occupies in a number all over the place - Scattered
- In a muddle or mess, confused, disorganized (informal)
fall into place To be resolved give place (to) - To make room (for)
- To be superseded (by)
go places see under go1 have place To have existence in place - In position
- Opportune
in place of Instead of in the first place Firstly, originally know one's place To show proper subservience lose one's place To falter in following a text, etc, not know what point has been reached lose the place (informal) - To flounder, be at a loss, be all at sea
- To lose one's temper
out of place - Out of due position
- Inappropriate, unseasonable
put or keep someone in his or her place To humble someone who is arrogant, presumptuous, etc, or keep him or her in subservience take one's place To assume one's rightful position take place - To come to pass, to occur
- To take precedence
take someone's place To act as substitute for, or successor to, someone take the place of To be a substitute for |