a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising
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"
to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold"; "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull"; "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy"
on the contrary; "rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left"; "he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"; "used English terms instead of Latin ones"
the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"