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Placed   /pleɪst/   Listen
verb
Place  v. t.  (past & past part. placed; pres. part. placing)  
1.
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.
Synonyms: Put. "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown."
2.
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."
3.
To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
4.
To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. "My resolution 's placed."
5.
To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. "Place it for her chief virtue."
6.
(Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially.
7.
(Rugby Football) To place-kick ( a goal).
8.
To recognize or identify (a person). (Colloq. U.S.)





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"Placed" Quotes from Famous Books



... she replied to his inquiries, and he looked at her, each wondering if the other could be in the least aware that a conjugal quarrel might be at the root of the dilemma in which they were placed by ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. III • Elizabeth Gaskell
... state of affairs that the disastrous invasion of the Lombards had brought about. The new order was established at the end of the reign of Justin II. (565-578) under a new and supreme official. Without doing away with the prefect of Italy the emperor placed over him as supreme head of the new administration the exarch[1] who was both the military commander-in-chief and the governor-general of Italy; and, since the chief need of Italy was defence, without entirely suppressing the civil administration, ...
— Ravenna, A Study • Edward Hutton
... and Robin placed one foot firmly on the tough and gnarled branch of a giant wistaria that was trained thickly all over that side of ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... how far she had drawn away from him, and now placed her hand on his arm to appease her self-accusations and propitiate duty. He spoke as she had wished, his manner was what she had wished; she was his bride, almost his wife; her conduct was a kind of madness; she could ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... eyesight—a victim to crimes in which he had not been an accomplice. John had made a vow, during his detention, to give, if he regained his liberty, to the church of Notre Dame at Nantes, his weight in gold; and most conscientiously did he perform his promise, for we read, "He placed himself in his war armour in the balance, and caused the opposite scale to be filled with gold till it had attained the weight of the first; that is to say, three hundred and eighty marks, seven ounces"—which sum ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser


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