Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 71
Place (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. "The enervating magic of place." -- Hawthorne.
Men in great place are thrice servants. -- Bacon.
I know my place as I would they should do theirs. -- Shak.
Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). "In place of Lord Bassanio." -- Shak.
Place (n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
The place of the scripture which he read was this. -- Acts viii. 32.
Place (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
Place (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
My word hath no place in you. -- John viii. 37.
Place (n.) (Astron.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
Place (n.) (Racing) 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.
Place of arms (Mil.), A place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. -- Wilhelm.
High place (Script.), A mount on which sacrifices were offered. "Him that offereth in the high place." -- Jer. xlviii. 35.
In place, In proper position; timely.
Out of place, Inappropriate; ill-timed; as, his remarks were out of place.
Place kick (Football), The act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground.
Place name, the name of a place or locality. -- London Academy.
To give place, To make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. "Neither give place to the devil." -- Eph. iv. 27. "Let all the rest give place." -- Shak.
To have place, To have a station, room, or seat; as, such desires can have no place in a good heart.
To take place. (a) To come to pass; to occur; as, the ceremony will not take place.
To take place. (b) To take precedence or priority. -- Addison.
To take place. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." -- Berkeley. "But none of these excuses would take place." -- Spenser.
To take the place of, To be substituted for.
Syn: Situation; seat; abode; position; locality; location; site; spot; office; employment; charge; function; trust; ground; room; stead.
Placed (imp. & p. p.) of Place.
Placing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Place.
Place (v. t.) 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.
Syn: Put.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. -- Shak.
Place (v. t.) 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.
Place such over them to be rulers. -- Ex. xviii. 21.
Place (v. t.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
Place (v. t.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. "My resolution 's placed." -- Shak.
Place (v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
Place it for her chief virtue. -- Shak.
Place (v. t.) (Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially.
Place (v. t.) (Rugby Football) To place-kick ( a goal).
Place (v. t.) Tto recognize or identify (a person). [Colloq. U.S.]
Place (n.) A point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" [syn: topographic point, place, spot].
Place (n.) Any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this
place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House" [syn: place, property].
Place (n.) An abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups."
Place (n.) A general vicinity; "He comes from a place near Chicago."
Place (n.) The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu].
Place (n.) A particular situation; "If you were in my place what would you do?" [syn: place, shoes].
Place (n.) Where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place].
Place (n.) A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation].
Place (n.) The particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: position, place].
Place (n.) Proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station" [syn: place, station].
Place (n.) A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [syn: seat, place].
Place (n.) The passage that is being read; "he lost his place on the page."
Place (n.) Proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen."
Place (n.) A public square with room for pedestrians; "they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place" [syn: plaza, place, piazza].
Place (n.) An item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: place, position].
Place (n.) A blank area; "write your name in the space provided" [syn: space, blank space, place].
Place (v.) Put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay].
Place (v.) Place somebody in a particular situation or location; "he was placed on probation."
Place (v.) Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place].
Place (v.) Assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site].
Place (v.) To arrange for; "place a phone call"; "place a bet."
Place (v.) Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon" [syn: place, come in, come out].
Place (v.) Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself" [syn: target, aim, place, direct, point].
Place (v.) Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster" [syn: identify, place].
Place (v.) Assign to (a job or a home).
Place (v.) Locate; "The film is set in Africa" [syn: set, localize, localise, place].
Place (v.) Estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." [syn: place, put, set].
Place (v.) Identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection" [syn: place, localize, localise].
Place (v.) Make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest, put, commit, place] [ant: disinvest, divest].
Place (v.) Assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place].
Place (v.) Finish second or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to place."
Place (v.) Sing a note with the correct pitch.
PLACE, () Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment.
["The Compiler for the Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment (PLACE)", AFAPL TR-68-27, Battelle Inst, Columbus, May 1968].
Place, () pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Place, () In local actions, the plaintiff must lay his venue in the county in which the action arose. It is a general rule, that the place of every traversable fact, stated in the pleading, must be distinctly alleged; Com. Dig. Pleader, c. 20; Cro. Eliz. 78, 98; Lawes' Pl. 57; Bac. Ab. Venue, B; Co. Litt. 303 a; and some place must be alleged for every such fact; this is done by designating the city, town, village, parish or district, together with the county in which the fact is alleged to have occurred; and the place thus designated, is called the venue. (q.v.)
Place, () In transitory actions, the place laid in the declaration, need not be the place where the cause of action arose, unless when required by statute. In local actions, the plaintiff will be confined in his proof to the county laid in the declaration.
Place, () In criminal cases the facts must be laid and proved to have been committed within the jurisdiction of the court, or the defendant must be acquitted. 2 Hawk. c. 25, s. 84; Arch. Cr. Pl. 40, 95. Vide, generally, Gould on Pl. c. 3, 102-104; Arch. Civ. Pl. 366; Hamm. N. P. 462; 1 Saund. 347, n. 1; 2 Saund. 5 n.
Placebo (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
Placebo (n.) (Med.) A prescription with no pharmacological activity given to a patient to humor or satisfy the desire for medical treatment.
Placebo (n.) (Med.) A dose of a compound having no pharmacological activity given to a subject in a medical experiment as part of a control experiment in a test of the effectiveness of another, active pharmacological agent.
To sing placebo, To agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to. -- Chaucer.
Placebo (n.) An innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug.
Placebo (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead.
Placeful (a.) In the appointed place. [Obs.]
Placeless (a.) Having no place or office.
Placemen (n. pl. ) of Placeman.
Placeman (n.) One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. -- Sir W. Scott.
Placeman (n.) A disparaging term for an appointee [syn: placeman, placeseeker].
Placement (n.) The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
Placement (n.) Position; place.
Placement (n.) The spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" [syn: placement, arrangement].
Placement (n.) Contact established between applicants and prospective employees; "the agency provided placement services."
Placement (n.) The act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement].
Placentae (n. pl. ) of Placenta.
Placentas (n. pl. ) of Placenta.
Placenta (n.) (Anat.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi on its surface penetrate the blood vessels of the parental uterus, and thus establish a nutritive and excretory connection between the blood of the fetus and that of the parent, though the blood itself does not flow from one to the other.
Placenta (n.) (Bot.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
Placental (a.) Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
Placental (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Placentalia.
Placental (n.) (Zool.) One of the Placentalia.
Placental (a.) Pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta; "all mammals except monotremes and marsupials are placental mammals" [ant: aplacental].
Placental (n.) Mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials [syn: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal].
Placentalia (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
Compare: Mammalia
Mammalia, (n. pl.) [NL., from L. mammalis. See Mammal.] (Zool.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
Note: Mammalia are divided into three subclasses; I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the higher orders, including man. In these the fetus is attached to the uterus by a placenta. II. Marsupialia. In these no placenta is formed, and the young, which are born at an early state of development, are carried for a time attached to the teats, and usually protected by a marsupial pouch. The opossum, kangaroo, wombat, and koala are examples. III. Monotremata. In this group, which includes the genera Echidna and Ornithorhynchus, the female lays large eggs resembling those of a bird or lizard, and the young, which are hatched like those of birds, are nourished by a watery secretion from the imperfectly developed mammae.
Placentary (a.) Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
Placentation (n.) (Anat.) The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
Placentation (n.) (Bot.) The mode in which the placenta is arranged or composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation.
Placentation (n.) The formation of the placenta in the uterus.
Placentation (n.) Arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary.
Placentiferous (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Having or producing a placenta.
Placentiform (a.) (Bot) Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
Placentious (a.) Pleasing; amiable. [Obs.] "A placentious person." -- Fuller.
Place-proud (a.) Proud of rank or office. -- Beau. & Fl.
Placer (n.) One who places or sets. -- Spenser.
Placer (n.) [Sp.] A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]
Placer (n.) An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral.
Placer -- U.S. County in California
Population (2000): 248399
Housing Units (2000): 107302
Land area (2000): 1404.367303 sq. miles (3637.294463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 98.410589 sq. miles (254.882245 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1502.777892 sq. miles (3892.176708 sq. km)
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 38.971576 N, 120.947618 W
Headwords:
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Placer, CA
Placer County
Placer County, CA
Placet (n.) A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.
Placet (n.) The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. -- Shipley.
The king . . . annulled the royal placet. -- J. P. Peters.
Placid (a.) Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." -- Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." -- Macaulay.
Placid, () (Of a body of water) Free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled].
Placid, () Not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays" [syn: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered, placid].
Placidity (n.) The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity. -- Hawthorne.
Placidity (n.) A feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling [syn: placidity, placidness].
Placidity (n.) A disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility].
Placidly (adv.) In a placid manner.
Placidly (adv.) In a quiet and tranquil manner; "the sea now shimmered placidly before our eyes."
Placidly (adv.) In a placid and good-natured manner; "I put the questions, and she answered them placidly."
Placidness (n.) The quality or state of being placid.
Placidness (n.) A feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling [syn: placidity, placidness].
Placit (n.) A decree or determination; a dictum. [Obs.] "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." -- Evelyn.
Placitory (a.) Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. [Obs.] -- Clayton.
Placita (n. pl. ) of Placitum.
Placitum (n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state. -- Brande & C.
Placitum (n.) (Old Eng. Law) A court, or cause in court.
Placitum (n.) (Law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit. -- Burrill.
Placitum. () A plea. This word is nomen generalissimum, and refers to all the pleas in the case. 1 Saund. 388, n. 6; Skinn. 554; S. C. earth. 834; Yelv. 65. By placitum is also understood the subdivisions in abridgments and other works, where the point decided in a case is set down, separately, and generally numbered. In citing, it is abbreviated as follows: Vin. Ab. Abatement, pl. 3.
Placitum. () Placita, is the style of the English courts at the beginning of the record of Nisi Prius; in this sense, placita are divided into pleas of the crown, and common pleas.
Placitum. () The word is used by continental writers to signify jurisdictions, judgments, or assemblies for discussing causes. It occurs frequently in the laws of the Longobards, in which there is a title de his qui ad, placitum venire coguntur. The word, it has been suggested, is derived from the German platz, which signifies the same as area facta. See Const. Car. Mag. Cap. IX. Hinemar's Epist. 227 and 197. The common formula in most of the capitularies is "Placuit atque convenit inter Francos et corum proceres," and hence, says Dupin, the laws themselves are often called placita. Dupin, Notions sur le Droit, p. 73.
Plack (n.) A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.
With not a plack in the pocket of the poet. -- Prof. Wilson.
Placket (n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Placket (n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.
Placket (n.) A woman's pocket.
Placket (n.) A piece of cloth sewn under an opening.
Placoderm (n.) (Paleon.) One of the Placodermi.
Placoderm (n.) Fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws.
Placodermal (a.) (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.
Placodermata (n. pl.) [NL.] (Paleon.) Same as Placodermi.
Placodermi (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.
Placodermi (n.) Extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws [syn: Placodermi, class Placodermi].
Placoganoid (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
Placoganoidei (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
Placoid (a.) (Zool.) Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
Placoid (n.) (Zool.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
Placoid (n.) (Zool.) One of the Placoides.
Placoid (a.) As the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks [syn: placoid, platelike].
Placoides (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.
Placoidian (n.) (Zool.) One of the placoids.
Placophora (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
Plagae (n. pl. ) of Plaga.
Plaga (n.) (Zool.) A stripe of color.
Plagal (a.) (Mus.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.
Plagal cadence, A cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the chord on the subdominant.
Plagate (a.) (Zool.) Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots.
Plage (n.) A region; country. [Obs.] "The plages of the north." -- Chaucer.
Plage (n.) The beach at a seaside resort.
Plagiarism (n.) The act or practice of plagiarizing.
Plagiarism (n.) That which plagiarized ; a work which has been plagiarized.
Plagiarism (n.) A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work.
Plagiarism (n.) The act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own [syn: plagiarism, plagiarization, plagiarisation, piracy].
Plagiarism. () The act of appropriating the ideas and language of another, and passing them for one's own.
Plagiarism. () When this amounts to piracy the party who has been guilty of it will be enjoined, when the original author has a copyright. Vide Copyright; Piracy; Quotation; Pard. Dr. Com. n. 169.
Plagiarist (n.) One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.
Plagiarist (n.) Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own [syn: plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser, literary pirate, pirate].
Plagiarized (imp. & p. p.) of Plagiarize.
Plagiarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plagiarize.
Plagiarize (v. t.) To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).
Plagiarize (v.) Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift].
Plagiarize, (v.) To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
Plagiary (v. i.) To commit plagiarism.
Plagiaries (n. pl. ) of Plagiary.
Plagiary (n.) A manstealer; a kidnaper. [Obs.]
Plagiary (n.) One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. -- Dryden.
Plagiary (n.) Plagiarism; literary thief. -- Milton.
Plagiary (a.) Kidnaping. [Obs.] -- E. Browne.
Plagiary (a.) Practicing plagiarism. -- Bp. Hall.
Plagihedral (a.) (Crystallog.) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
Plagiocephalic (a.) (Anat.) Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Plagiocephaly (n.) (Anat.) Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Plagiocephaly (n.) Congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique.
Plagioclase (n.) (Min.) A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.
Plagioclase (n.) Any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks [syn: plagioclase, oligoclase].
Plagionite (n.) (Min.) A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.
Plagiostomatous (a.) (Zool.) Same as Plagiostomous.
Plagiostome (n.) (Zool.) One of the Plagiostomi.
Plagiostomi (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called {Plagiostomata"> also {Plagiostomata.
Plagiostomous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.
Plagiotremata (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Lepidosauria.
Plagiotropic (a.) (Bot.) Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.
Plagium (n.) [L.] (Civil Law) Manstealing; kidnaping.
Plagium. () Man stealing, kidnapping. This offence is the crimen plagii of the Romans. Alis. Pr. Cr. Law, 280, 281.
Plagose (a.) Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]
Plague (n.) 瘟疫 [C]；鼠疫 [the S] That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. -- Shak.
And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. -- Wyclif.
The different plague of each calamity. -- Shak.
Plague
(n.)
(Med.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt,
Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with
frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great
Cattle plague. See Rinderpest.
Plague mark, Plague spot, A spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.
Plagued (imp. & p. p.) of Plague.