placard | (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, poster, posting |
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placation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, propitiation |
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place | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, position, post, situation |
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(noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, position, stead |
(noun) an abstract mental location | - |
(noun) the passage that is being read | - |
(noun) a blank area | Synonyms: blank space, space |
(noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: position |
(noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: spot, topographic point |
(noun) a general vicinity | - |
(noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: piazza, plaza |
(noun) a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane) | Synonyms: seat |
(noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: property |
(noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: position |
(noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: home |
(noun) proper or designated social situation | Synonyms: station |
(noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: shoes |
(noun) proper or appropriate position or location | - |
placebo | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead | - |
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(noun) an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug | - |
placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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(noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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placement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning |
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(noun) contact established between applicants and prospective employees | - |
(noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: arrangement |
placenta | (noun) the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus | - |
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(noun) that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form | - |
placental | (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental mammal |
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placentation | (noun) arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary | - |
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(noun) the formation of the placenta in the uterus | - |
placer | (noun) an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral | - |
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placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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placidity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
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(noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidness |
placidness | (noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidity |
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placket | (noun) a piece of cloth sewn under an opening | - |
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placoderm | (noun) fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
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