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What is the difference between place and name?

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In context|transitive|lang=en terms the difference between place and name

is that place is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to recruit or match an appropriate person for a job while name is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to designate for a role.

As nouns the difference between place and name

is that place is a location or position while name is any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

As verbs the difference between place and name

is that place is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to put (an object or person) in a specific location while name is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to give a name to.

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

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    name

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia name) (en noun)
  • Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
  • * Bible, Genesis ii. 19
  • Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.
  • * 1904 , , (The Marvelous Land of Oz) :
  • So good a man as this must surely have a name .
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=[http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-s-langston Lee S. Langston], magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title=[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/4/the-adaptable-gas-turbine The Adaptable Gas Turbine] , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • Reputation.
  • * 1604 , (William Shakespeare), :
  • Good name in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.[http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html]
  • * 1952 , (Old Testament), Revised Standard Version , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:
  • And David won a name for himself.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]
  • A person (or legal person).
  • * Dryden
  • They list with women each degenerate name .
  • * second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place , ISBN 1841692336, page 287 [http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names]:
  • Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall,.
  • * 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management , ISBN 0074620975 page 79 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names]:
  • Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?
  • * 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability , ISBN 0203891058, page 29 [http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names]:
  • International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and.
  • Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  • * Macaulay
  • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name , came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
  • (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
  • An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
  • Synonyms

    * proper name * See also

    Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    Verb

    (nam)
  • To give a name to.
  • * 1904:' , ''The Land of Oz'' — I will ' name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
  • *
  • , title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients], chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
  • To mention, specify.
  • To identify as relevant or important
  • To publicly implicate.
  • To designate for a role.
  • Derived terms

    * codename * misname * name after * name names * you name it

    See also

    * christen * cognomen * epithet * moniker * nom de guerre * nom de plume * pseudonym * sobriquet

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