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# place

«place» in Mova's school dictionary: **a particular area, spot or position: a quiet place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (place, places); verb (place, places, placed, placing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place is a particular area, spot or position: a quiet place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#m1)

2) A place is a town, building or home: come to my place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#m2)

3) A place is a position in a race or a list: first place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#m3)

4) In maths, the place of a digit gives its value: the tens place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#m4)

5) To place is to put something somewhere carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

to put a thing on the table («I place one cup on the table»: the count goes up); «places N on each of M» = equal groups (multiply); in maths place value (ones, tens, hundreds); in sport first, second, third place; in everyday life «take place» (happen), «in place of» (instead of), «all over the place»

### examples

- I place one cup on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x1)
- Sara places 4 plates on each of 3 tables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x2)
- Ben places 6 more books on the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x3)
- In 352 the digit 5 is in the tens place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x4)
- Mia came in first place in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x5)
- This park is my favourite place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x6)
- Put the book back in its place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x7)
- The school fair will take place on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x8)
- At last he reached the place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/#x9)

### note

Placing = things arrive: the count goes up. Trap: «places N on each of M» is equal groups: multiply. Place value: in 352 the 5 means 50, not 5.

### In the corpora

- [A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/9/)
- [Councils have recycling rules about which bin takes plastic, paper, glass or food, and the rules differ from place to place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/14/)
- [A bad picture fades faster if you fill your head with something else, like a favourite place, a game or a song.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/22/)
- [Many places have bagpipes: Scotland, Ireland's uilleann pipes, the gaita of Galicia in Spain and the gaida of Bulgaria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/12/)
- [Street art is art in public places, and the big question is always the same: did the owner agree?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «place» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/place/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.