inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"
located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"
an abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"
the passage that is being read; "he lost his place on the page"
an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"
any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House"
a general vicinity; "He comes from a place near Chicago"
a particular situation; "If you were in my place what would you do?"
proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station"
proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"
take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"
estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
to arrange for; "place a phone call", "place a bet"
sing a note with the correct pitch
finish second or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to place"
place somebody in a particular situation or location; "he was placed on probation"
assign to (a job or a home)
identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection"
a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm"
a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"
a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"
the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; "he checked the direction and velocity of the wind"