'Placing' definitions:
Definition of 'Placing'
From: GCIDE
- Place \Place\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placed; p. pr. & vb. n. Placing.] [Cf. F. placer. See Place, n.]
- 1. To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
- Syn: Put. [1913 Webster]
- Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. [1913 Webster]
- Place such over them to be rulers. --Ex. xviii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. "My resolution 's placed." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. [1913 Webster]
- Place it for her chief virtue. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 7. (Rugby Football) To place-kick ( a goal). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 8. to recognize or identify (a person). [Colloq. U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Placing'
- In place,
- Out of place,
- Place,
- Placed,
- Placeful,
- To have place,
- at that place,
- place down,
- Breathing place,
- Burial place,
- Burying place,
- By-place,
- Carle Place,
- Carrying place,
- College Place,
- Dwelling place,
- Elmwood Place,
- Face of a place,
- Heliocentric place,
- High place,
- Landing place,
- Langdon Place,
- Market place,
- Meadows Place,
- Miller Place,
- Normal place,
- Place kick,
- Place name,
- Place of arms,
- Sacred place,
- Southside Place,
- Sticking place,
- Thoms Place,
- To give place,
- To place in the background,
- To take place,
- To take the place of,
- Trysting place,
- University Place,
- Watering place,
- at a lower place,
- body of the place,
- eating place,
- fall into place,
- fictitious place,
- first place,
- gathering place,
- go places,
- hiding place,
- holy place,
- imaginary place,
- in a higher place,
- in the first place,
- jumping off place,
- lurking place,
- meeting place,
- mythical place,
- nesting place,
- open place,
- place bet,
- place mat,
- place of birth,
- place of business,
- place of origin,
- place of worship,
- place setting,
- place upright,
- polling place,
- pride of place,
- resting place,
- secret place,
- skull the place of a,
- stay in place,
- stopping place,
- take place,
- taking place,
- to a higher place,
- to a lower place,
- Carle Place, NY,
- College Place, WA,
- Elmwood Place, OH,
- Langdon Place, KY,
- Meadows Place, TX,
- Miller Place, NY,
- Oak Hills Place,
- Old Brownsboro Place,
- Place-kick,
- Place-kicker,
- Place-proud,
- Southside Place, TX,
- Thoms Place, AK,
- University Place, WA,
- West University Place,
- agent-in-place,
- farm-place,
- jumping-off place,
- last-place,
- place-kicking,
- place-worship,
- Oak Hills Place, LA,
- Old Brownsboro Place, KY,
- Tanglewilde-Thompson Place,
- West University Place, TX,
- first-place finish,
- second-place finish,
- third-place finish,
- Tanglewilde-Thompson Place, WA