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IN PLACE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the original or natural place or site
Example:
the archeologists left the pottery in place
Synonyms:
in place; in situ
Classified under:
Context examples:
Solid, in place rock underlying unconsolidated sediments or other superficial material.
(Bedrock substrate, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Some of the tests even created artificial radiation belts, akin to the natural Van Allen radiation belts, a layer of charged particles held in place by Earth’s magnetic fields.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
At half-past five, under his directions, I set the table in the cabin, with rough-weather trays in place, and then carried the tea and cooked food down from the galley.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
These carcinogenic compounds can have single, double or multiple fused rings and can have other chemical groups attached to them in place of hydrogen.
(Carcinogenic Halogenated Aromatic Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)
Another sense that may be in place is hearing.
(Antarctic seals may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate while hunting, NSF)
Any of the cells that hold nerve cells in place and help them work the way they should.
(Glial cell, NCI Dictionary)
Once the wire is in the right place, the needle is removed and the wire is left in place so the doctor will know where the abnormal tissue is.
(Needle localization, NCI Dictionary)
It is not used for screening or in place of a mammogram.
(Miraluma test, NCI Dictionary)
In place of his own, "Medusa Lights," the editor had printed, "The Backward Track."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In women, it holds the uterus, bladder, bowel, and other pelvic organs in place so that they can work properly.
(Pelvic Support Problems, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
