What does place mean?

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[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)[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 cer

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place - The Free Dictionary

[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)

[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)

[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)

[v] place somebody in a particular situation or location
(he was placed on probation)

[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)

[v] assign a rank or rating to
(how would you rank these students? The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide)

[n] a general vicinity
(He comes from a place near Chicago)

[v] assign a location to
(The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles)

[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)

[v] to arrange for
(place a phone call place a bet)

[n] a particular situation
(If you were in my place what would you do?)

[v] take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
(Jerry came in third in the Marathon)

[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?)

[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)

[n] a job in an organization
(he occupied a post in the treasury)

[v] recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
(She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster)

[n] the particular portion of space occupied by something
(he put the lamp back in its place)

[v] assign to (a job or a home)

[n] proper or designated social situation
(he overstepped his place the responsibilities of a man in his station married above her station)

[v] locate
(The film is set in Africa)

[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)

[v] estimate
(We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.)

[n] the passage that is being read
(he lost his place on the page)

[v] identify the location or place of
(We localized the source of the infection)

[n] proper or appropriate position or location
(a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen)

[v] make an investment
(Put money into bonds)

[n] a public square with room for pedestrians
(they met at Elm Plaza Grosvenor Place)

[v] assign to a station

[n] an item on a list or in a sequence
(in the second place moved from third to fifth position)

[v] finish second or better in a horse or dog race
(he bet $2 on number six to place)

[n] a blank area
(write your name in the space provided)

[v] sing a note with the correct pitch

Other vocabulary

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A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary.

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.