Place vs. Put

Placenoun

(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.

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An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

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A group of houses.

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An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.

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Any area of the earth: a region.

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The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.

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The area where one lives: one's home, formerly country estates and farms.

Placenoun

An area of the skin.

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An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

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An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.

Placenoun

A location or position in space.

Placenoun

A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.

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A passage or extract from a book or document.

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A topic.

Placenoun

A frame of mind.

Placenoun

A chess position; a square of the chessboard.

Placenoun

(social) A responsibility or position in an organization.

Placenoun

A role or purpose; a station.

Placenoun

The position of a contestant in a competition.

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(horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.

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The position as a member of a sports team.

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A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.

Placenoun

Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

Placenoun

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

Placenoun

Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

Placeverb

(transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.

Placeverb

(intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.

Placeverb

To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.

Placeverb

(transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

Placeverb

To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

Placeverb

(transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.

Placeverb

(transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).

Placeverb

(transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

Placeverb

To place-kick (a goal).

Placenoun

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.

Placenoun

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

Placenoun

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.

Placenoun

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

Placenoun

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

Placenoun

A definite position or passage of a document.

Placenoun

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

Placenoun

Reception; effect; - implying the making room for.

Placenoun

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

Placenoun

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.

Placeverb

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.

Placeverb

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.

Placeverb

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

Placeverb

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

Placeverb

To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

Placeverb

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

Placeverb

To place-kick ( a goal).

Placeverb

to recognize or identify (a person).

Placenoun

a point located with respect to surface features of some region;

Placenoun

any area set aside for a particular purpose;

Placenoun

an abstract mental location;

Placenoun

a general vicinity;

Placenoun

the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;

Placenoun

a particular situation;

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where you live at a particular time;

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a job in an organization;

Placenoun

the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;

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proper or designated social situation;

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a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);

Placenoun

the passage that is being read;

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proper or appropriate position or location;

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a public square with room for pedestrians;

Placenoun

an item on a list or in a sequence;

Placenoun

a blank area;

Placeverb

put into a certain place or abstract location;

Placeverb

place somebody in a particular situation or location;

Placeverb

assign a rank or rating to;

Placeverb

assign a location to;

Placeverb

to arrange for;

Placeverb

take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal;

Placeverb

intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;

Placeverb

recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something;

Placeverb

assign to (a job or a home)

Placeverb

locate;

Placeverb

estimate;

Placeverb

identify the location or place of;

Placeverb

make an investment;

Placeverb

assign to a station

Placeverb

finish second or better in a horse or dog race;

Placeverb

sing a note with the correct pitch

Placenoun

a particular position, point, or area in space; a location

Placenoun

a particular area on a larger surface

Placenoun

a building or area used for a specified purpose or activity

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a person's home

Placenoun

a point in a book or other text reached by a reader at a particular time

Placenoun

a portion of space designated or available for or being used by someone

Placenoun

a vacancy or available position

Placenoun

the regular or proper position of something

Placenoun

a person's rank or status

Placenoun

a right or privilege resulting from someone's role or position

Placenoun

the role played by or importance attached to someone or something in a particular context

Placenoun

a position in a sequence or series, typically one ordered on the basis of merit

Placenoun

any of the first three or sometimes four positions in a race (used especially of the second, third, or fourth positions).

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the second position, especially in a horse race.

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the degree of priority given to something

Placenoun

the position of a figure in a series indicated in decimal or similar notation, especially one after the decimal point

Placenoun

a square or short street

Placenoun

a country house with its grounds.

Placeverb

put in a particular position

Placeverb

cause to be in a particular situation

Placeverb

allocate or assign (an abstract quality) to something

Placeverb

have a specified degree of advantage or convenience as a result of one's position or circumstances

Placeverb

find a home or employment for

Placeverb

dispose of (something, especially shares) by selling to a customer

Placeverb

arrange for the recognition and implementation of (an order, bet, etc.)

Placeverb

order or obtain a connection for (a telephone call) through an operator

Placeverb

identify or classify as being of a specified type or as holding a specified position in a sequence or hierarchy

Placeverb

be able to remember or identify (someone or something)

Placeverb

achieve a specified position in a race

Placeverb

be among the first three or four in a race (or the first three in the US)

Placeverb

score (a goal) by a place kick.

Putverb

To place something somewhere.

Putverb

To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

Putverb

(finance) To exercise a put option.

Putverb

To express something in a certain manner.

Putverb

(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.

Putverb

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

Putverb

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Putverb

To attach or attribute; to assign.

Putverb

(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

Putverb

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

Putverb

(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

Putverb

(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Putnoun

(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.

Putnoun

(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

Putnoun

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

Putnoun

An old card game.

Putnoun

(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer.

Putnoun

(obsolete) A prostitute.

Putnoun

A pit.

Putnoun

A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

Putnoun

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

Putnoun

A certain game at cards.

Putnoun

A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.

Putnoun

A prostitute.

Put

3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

Putverb

To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; - nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).

Putverb

To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.

Putverb

To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

Putverb

To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

Putverb

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; - formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.

Putverb

To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

Putverb

To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

Putverb

To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

Putverb

To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

Putverb

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

Putverb

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Putnoun

the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Putverb

put into a certain place or abstract location;

Putverb

cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation;

Putverb

formulate in a particular style or language;

Putverb

attribute or give;

Putverb

make an investment;

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estimate;

Putverb

cause (someone) to undergo something;

Putverb

adapt;

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arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;

Putverb

move to or place in a particular position

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cause (someone or something) to go to a particular place and remain there for a time

Putverb

(of a ship) proceed in a particular direction

Putverb

(of a river) flow in a particular direction.

Putverb

bring into a particular state or condition

Putverb

imagine oneself in (a particular situation)

Putverb

write or print (something) in a particular place

Putverb

express (a thought or comment) in a particular way

Putverb

cause (someone or something) to be subject to something

Putverb

assign a particular value, figure, or limit to

Putverb

estimate something to be (a particular amount)

Putverb

throw (a shot or weight) as an athletic sport

Putnoun

a throw of a shot or weight.

Putnoun

short for put option