Noun

(en noun)

(label) An area; somewhere within an area.

# A location or position.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Here is the place appointed.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?

#* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

#* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

# An open space, courtyard, market square.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place

# A group of houses.

# A region of a land.

#* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}

# Somewhere for a person to sit.

# (label) A house or home.

A frame of mind.

(label) A position, a responsibility.

# A role or purpose; a station.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Men in great place are thrice servants.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I know my place as I would they should do theirs.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}

# The position of a contestant in a competition.

# The position as a member of a sports team.

Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

* Mather Byles

In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion

Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

* Bible, (w) viii. 37

My word hath no place in you.

Noun

(duties)

That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.

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*1805 , 21 October,

*:England expects that every man will do his duty .

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty , cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.

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Describing a workload as to its idle, working and de-energized periods.

A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.

(lb) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.

*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XX:

*:Take that which is thy duty , and goo thy waye.

(lb) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:my duty to you

The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).