A location or position in space.
An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
A state of mind.
The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
An area of the body, especially the skin.
An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
The position of a contestant in a competition.
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
A role or purpose; a station.
A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
The position as a member of a sports team.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
Any area of the earth: a region.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To earn a given spot in a competition.
To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
To place-kick (a goal).
A place or location.
A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
A situation suitable to perform some action.
The order in which players are seated around the table.
A status or rank.
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
An opinion, stand, or stance.
A posture.
A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
A post of employment; a job.
An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
To put into place.