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).
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.
A location or position in space.
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 place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
To silence, especially by force.
To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
To become married, or a householder.
To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
To kill.
To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
To become compact due to sinking.
To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
To be established in a profession or in employment.
To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
To pay (a bill).
To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)
To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).