0 past simple and past participle of place --
1 to put something in a particular position: --
The students are placed in/with companies for a period of work experience.
He placed importance on a comfortable lifestyle (= it was important to him).
She placed the emphasis on the word "soon" in order to make sure was understood.
[ + obj + adj ] The horse was placed first/second/third in its first race (= finished the race in first/second/third position).
I'd place him among the ten most brilliant scientists of his age.
She placed her name on the list of volunteers.
2 to recognize someone or remember where you have seen someone and how you know them: --
A lack of data has forced this research to defer any examination of the types of investments into which funds are placed.
An issue would be placed on the ballot if a large number of voters from around the country signed a petition.
Conversely, a disproportionately small percentage of students from these groups achieve sufficiently high test performances to become placed in classes for talented and gifted students.
The particles used in each experiment were placed on the wind tunnel surface, forming a layer roughly 2 cm thick.
The experimenter placed the visible object and the bucket containing an object next to each other, and within reach of the child.
These changes placed the blue-green beam on the optical axis and the blue beam and green beam at nominally +45" from vertical.
The third monitor measured the vertical axis and was placed on the sacrum.
Bags were placed in plastic containers containing ice packs and transferred to the laboratory.
