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place | have |

As a verb place

is .

As an adjective have is

gaunt; pale and thin.

place

English

(wikipedia place)

Alternative forms

* (l)

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.

    Synonyms

    * courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, mood

    Derived terms

    * abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplace

    Verb

    (plac)
  • To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
  • To earn a given spot in a competition.
  • To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
  • (in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
  • To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
  • To arrange for or to make (a bet).
  • To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
  • Synonyms

    * (to earn a given spot) * (to put in a specific location) deposit, lay, lay down, put down * (to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered) * (sense) achieve, make * reach * * (to recruit or match an appropriate person)

    Derived terms

    * placement * place on a pedestal

    Statistics

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    have

    English

    Verb

    : Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast 'and second-person singular past tense''' hadst''' or ' haddest .
  • To possess, own, hold.
  • I have a house and a car.
    Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
  • To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
  • I have two sisters.
    The dog down the street has a lax owner.
  • To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
  • I have breakfast at six o'clock.
    Can I have a look at that?
    I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
  • Used in forming the and the past perfect aspect.
  • I have already eaten today.
    I had already eaten.
  • must.
  • I have to go.
    Note: there's a separate entry for have to .
  • To give birth to.
  • The couple always wanted to have children.
    My wife is having the baby right now!
  • To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  • He's always bragging about how many women he's had .
  • To accept as a romantic partner.
  • Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
  • (transitive with bare infinitive ) To cause to, by a command or request.
  • They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
  • (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To cause to be.
  • He had him arrested for trespassing.
    The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
  • (transitive with bare infinitive ) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  • The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
    I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
  • (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To depict as being.
  • Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
    Anton Rogan, 8, was one of the runners-up in the Tick Tock Box short story competition, not Anton Rogers as we had it.'' — ''The Guardian .
  • Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
  • We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?
    Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?
    (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he ?
  • (British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
  • I could have him!
    I'm gonna have you!
  • (Irish) To be able to speak a language.
  • I have no German .
  • To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  • Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
  • To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative
  • He had a cold last week.
    We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
  • To trick, to deceive
  • You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
  • (often with present participle) To allow
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
  • "You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"

    Usage notes

    Interrogative auxiliary verb have ...?' (''third-person singular'' '''has ...?''', ''third-person singular negative'' '''hasn't ...?''' ''or'' '''has ... not?''', ''negative for all other persons, singular and plural'' '''haven't ...?''' ''or'' '''have ... not? ); ''in each case, the ellipsis stands for a pronoun * Used with a following pronoun to form tag questions after statements that use "have" to form the perfect tense or (in UK usage) that use "have" in the present tense. *: We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ? *: Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ? *: I'd bet that student hasn't studied yet, have they ? *: You've known all along, haven't you ? *: The sun has already set, has it not ? *: (UK usage'') He has some money, hasn't he ? (''see usage notes below ) * This construction forms a tag that converts a present perfect tense sentence into a question. The tag always uses an object pronoun substituting for the subject. Negative sentences use has'' or ''have'', distinguished by number. Affirmative sentences use the same followed by ''not'', or alternatively, more commonly, and less formally, ''hasn't'' or ''haven't . (See ). * In American usage, this construction does not apply to present tense sentences with has'' or ''have , or their negations, as a verb; it does not apply either to the construction "have got". In those cases, use "does" or its negation instead. For example: "He has some money, doesn't he?" and "I have got enough time, don't I?" These constructions with "do", "does", "don't" or "doesn't" are considered incorrect in UK usage.

    Derived terms

    * -'ve * be had * have a ball * have a cow * have at you * have it in for * have it off * have had enough * have had it * have nots * have someone on * have to * haves

    See also

    * auxiliary verb * past tense * perfect tense

    References