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PLACED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put in position in relation to other things
Example:
end tables placed conveniently
Classified under:
Similar:
arranged; ordered (disposed or placed in a particular kind of order)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Situated in a particular spot or position
Example:
nicely situated on a quiet riverbank
Synonyms:
located; placed; set; situated
Classified under:
Similar:
settled (established in a desired position or place; not moving about)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb place
Context examples:
You sit quietly where I have placed you, and regard me with a weary, passive look.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My children, she said, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I had a table placed upon the same at which her majesty ate, just at her left elbow, and a chair to sit on.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It is given through a catheter that is placed into the bladder where the solution is held for about two hours.
(bacillus Calmette-Guérin solution, NCI Dictionary)
The spatial property of the way in which something is placed.
(Arrangement, NCI Thesaurus)
Two other men he ordered to the side of Negore. They placed their guns against his breast and waited. All waited.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The limbs tend to remain in whatever position they are placed (waxy flexibility).
(Catalepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A silicone gel-filled or saline-filled sac placed under the chest muscle to restore breast shape.
(Breast implant, NCI Dictionary)
Position or arrangement, as of the teeth; the state of being placed or arranged, as the assignment of a person to a appropriate clinical study.
(Placement, NCI Thesaurus)
The specific restriction enzyme site within a vector into which an insert was placed.
(Cloning Site, NCI Thesaurus)
