Word Meanings - EMPLACEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
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- ASSIGNEE
In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PUTTYROOT
An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - DEFINITE
1. Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell. 2. Having certain limits - ASSIGNABILITY
The quality of being assignable. - ASSIGN
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info) - ASSIGNATION
1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of - PUTT
A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PUTTING GREEN
The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - PUTTEE
See GAITER - EMPLACEMENT
A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure. - LOCALIZATION
Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization , the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain. - ASSIGNAT
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France , and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state. - STRUCTURE
Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - MISASSIGN
To assign wrongly. - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like - APLACENTAL
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta. - DISPLACER
The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces. - BY-PLACE
A retired or private place.