Place vs Siege - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between place and siege

is that place is (label) an area; somewhere within an area while siege is (label) a seat .

As verbs the difference between place and siege

is that place is to put (an object or person) in a specific location while siege is to assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.

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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siege

English

(wikipedia siege)

Alternative forms

* syege

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A seat.

#(label) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.

#*.

#*:Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche kny?tesThenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges' with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her ' syeges

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vii:

#*:To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.

#(label) An ecclesiastical see.

#(label) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.

#The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.

#(label) A privy or lavatory.

#(label) The anus; the rectum.

#*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:

#*:Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege ; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.

#(label) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.

#*1610 , (The Tempest) , by (William Shakespeare), act 2 scene 2

#*:Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?

#(label) Rank; grade; station; estimation.

#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege .

#(label) The floor of a glass-furnace.

#(label) A workman's bench.

#:(Knight)

(label) Military action.

#A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.

#*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3 §5:

#*:The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.

#(label) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.

#(label) A prolonged assault or attack.

#*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}

Derived terms

Verb

(sieg)

To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.