In the first place

Definition

place /pleÇs/ n ၁။ [C] ေနရာ။ Is this the place where it happened? ❍ This would be a good place for a picnic. ❍ I can't be in two places at once. ၂။ [C] ေနရာ။ အရပ္။ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရပ္ရြာ။ ေဒသ။ the place where I was born ❍ We saw so many places on the tour I can't remember them all. ❍ Paris is a big place. ၃။ [C] (တစ္ခုေသာ) ေနရာ။ This office is a great place to work. ❍ We were looking for a place to eat (eg a restaurant). ❍ ‘I hate these places,’he said as he entered the hospital. ❍ He loves to be seen in all the right places (ie at all the important social events). ❍ ( infml ) Let's get out of this place! ၄။ [C] တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ျပဳလုပ္ရာ၊ ျပဳလုပ္ရန္ဌာန။ ေနရာ။ ေနရာဌာန။ a meeting-place/hiding-place ❍ ( fml ) places of entertainment (eg theatres or cinemas) ❍ a place of worship (eg a church) ❍ a place of learning (eg a university) ❍ He can usually be contacted at his place of work. See also RESTING-PLACE ၅။ [C] (ကိုယ္ခႏၶာေပၚ၊ အျပင္အျပန္႔ ေပၚမွ) ေနရာ။ I have a tattoo in an embarrassing place. ❍ The paint was peeling off the wall in several places. ❍ You can still see the place where the picture used to hang. ၆။ [C] သက္ဆိုင္ရာေနရာ။ Use a bookmark to mark your place. ❍ The audience laughed in all the right places (eg when watching a play). ❍ The singer had obviously lost her place (ie could not remember what came next). ၇။ [C] ထိုင္ခံု။ ေနရာ။ ေနရာထိုင္ခင္း။ Come and sit here– I've kept you a place. ❍ Return to your places and get on with your work. ❍ Four places were laid/set (ie prepared so that four people could eat) at the table. ❍ Let's change/swap (ie exchange) places so you can see better. ❍ I went to buy a newspaper and lost my place in the queue. ❍ the place of honour at the head of the procession ❍ There's only one place left in the car park. ❍ SPACE ၈။ [sing] (က) ~ (in sth) အခန္းက႑။ a debate about the place of computers in modern society ❍ have an assured place in history ❍ There will always be a place for you here if you decide to return. (ခ) အဆင့္အတန္း။ ေနရာ။ know/forget one's place (ie behave/not behave according to one's social position) ❍ It's not your place (ie your proper role) to give advice. ၉။ [C] (က) (ေက်ာင္း၊ တကၠသိုလ္ စသည္) ဝင္ခြင့္၊ တက္ခြင့္။ She was awarded a place at the National School of Music. ❍ The ballet school offers free places to children who are exceptionally talented. ❍ There are very few places left on the course. (ခ) (အားကစား အသင္း၌) အသင္းဝင္ေနရာ။ ❍ She worked hard for her place in the Olympic team. ❍ He lost his place in the first team. ၁၀။ [C] (က) ~ (for sth) ေနရာလပ္။ ေနရာလြတ္။ Put everything away in its right place. ❍ There's a place for your luggage above the seat. (ခ) (ျငင္းပယ္ျပပုဒ္ႏွင့္တြဲ၍)။ တင့္အပ္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္ေသာေနရာ။ သင့္ေတာ္ေသာေနရာ။ A railway station is no place for a child to be left alone at night. ❍ This town isn't the kind of place I'd like to live in. ၁၁။ [sing] ေနစရာအိမ္၊ တိုက္ခန္း။ They have a flat in town as well as a place in the country. ❍ I'm fed up with living with my parents, so I'm looking for a place of my own. ❍ ( infml ) We're having the party at my place. ❍ She likes her husband to help around the place. ၁၂။ [C usu sing ] (က) (ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ပထမ၊ ဒုတိယစသည္ျဖင့္ နံပါတ္ခ်ိတ္ ႏိုင္ေသာ) ေနရာ။ He finished in third place. (ခ) (ျမင္းပြဲတြင္) အထူး သျဖင့္ ဒုတိယ (သို႔) တတိယ ေနရာ။ ပေလး။ Did you back the horse for a place or to win? ၁၃။ [C] ( mathematics ) (ဒသမ) ေနရာ။ calculated/correct to 5 decimal places (eg 6.57132) ၁၄။ Place [sing] ( abbr Pl ) (အမည္ႏွင့္တြဲ၍ လမ္းတို/ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းကြက္လပ္)။ Langham Place. v ၁။ တင္သည္။ ထားသည္။ a cleverly placed bugging device ❍ He placed the money on the counter/his hand on my shoulder. ❍ A bomb had been placed under the seat. ၂။ (အရာအထူး၌) ထားသည္။ (အခ်ဳပ္ျဖင့္) ထားသည္။ (အေျခအေန တစ္ရပ္ရပ္သို႔) ေရာက္ေစသည္။ အပ္ႏွံသည္။ place sb in command ❍ place sb under arrest ❍ place sb in a difficult position/in an embarrassing situation ❍ place one's faith/trust in sb/sth ❍ Responsibility for concluding an agreement was placed in his hands (ie He was made responsible for it). ၃။ ~ sth on sth (ယံုၾကည္မႈ၊ သေဘာစသည္) ထားသည္။ place a high value on honesty ❍ The team manager places great emphasis on attacking play. ၄။ (အဆင့္အတန္းတစ္ရပ္ တြင္) ထားသည္၊ သတ္မွတ္သည္။ I would place her among the world's greatest sopranos. ၅။ (ျငင္းပယ္ျပပုဒ္မ်ားႏွင့္ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ တြဲ၍) မွတ္မိသည္၊ သတိရသည္။ I've seen his face before but I can't place him. ❍ She has a foreign accent that I can't quite place. ၆။ (အမွာစာ) ပို႔သည္။ (ေလာင္းေၾကး) ထိုးသည္။ They have placed an order with us for three new aircraft. ❍ I'd like to place an advertisement in your newspaper. ❍ Place your bets now! ၇။ ~ sb (in sth); ~ sb (with sb/ sth) (ေနရာ) ရွာေပးသည္။ The agency places about 2000 secretaries a year. ❍ They placed the children with foster-parents. ၈။ (အားကစား ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္) နံပါတ္ခ်ိတ္သည္။ … ဝင္သည္။ The horse was placed third. ❍ United are well placed just one point behind the League leaders. ❏ all over the place/shop [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ေနရာတကာ တြင္။ Firms are going bankrupt all over the place. ၂။ ႐ႈပ္ပြေနသည္။ တလြဲျဖစ္ေနသည္။ Her hair was all over the place. ❍ Your calculations are all over the place (ie completely wrong). ❏ be well placed for sth/to do sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ေနရာေကာင္း ရသည္။ The firm is well placed to take advantage of the new trade agreement. ၂။ အကြက္အကြင္းက်သည္။ The hotel is well placed for a variety of restaurants. ❏ change/swap places (with sb) [ IDM ] ေနရာခ်င္း လဲသည္။ လဲသည္။ I'm perfectly happy– I wouldn't change places with anyone. ❏ fall/slot into place [ IDM ] အေျဖေပၚသည္။ It all began to fall into place when detectives found her will. ❏ give place to sb/sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) ေနရာဖယ္ေပးရသည္။ Houses and factories gave place to open fields as the train gathered speed. ❏ go places [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ေန႔တျခား ေအာင္ျမင္လာ သည္။ two young people who are really going places. ❏ in the first place [ IDM ] ၁။ ပထမအခ်က္အေနျဖင့္။ ဦးဆံုး။ We need to make a decision; that's why we're all here in the first place. ၂။ အစက။ Why didn't you tell us that in the first place? ❏ in the first, second, etc place [ IDM ] ပထမအခ်က္ (စသည္) အေနျဖင့္။ Well, in the first place he's got all the right qualifications, and secondly… ❏ …in my, your, etc place [ IDM ] (မင္း၊ ငါ့၊ သူ႕) ေနရာမွာဆိုရင္။ If I were in her place I'd sell the lot. ❏ in place [ IDM ] ေနရာတက်။ သူ႕ေနရာႏွင့္သူ။ All the actors were in place so the play could begin. ❍ Leave everything in place, just as it was when we arrived. ❏ in place of sb/sth; in sb's/sth's place [ IDM ] ကိုယ္စား။ အစား။ The chairman was ill so his deputy spoke in his place. ❍ Williams was selected in place of the injured Roberts. ❏ out of place [ IDM ] ၁။ ေနရာတက်မရိွ။ အထားလြဲသည္။ The librarian noticed that some of the books were out of place. ၂။ တလြဲျဖစ္သည္။ အံဝင္ခြင္က်မျဖစ္။ Her criticisms were quite out of place. ❍ Victorian furniture is out of place in a modern house. ❍ I felt out of place at my husband's school reunion. ❏ placed adj (ျမင္းပြဲ၌) (က) ( Brit ) ပ၊ ဒု၊ တ တစ္ခုခုပန္းဝင္ [ေသာ]။ (ခ) ( US ) ဒုတိယ ပန္းဝင္ [ေသာ]။ ❏ a place in the sun [ IDM ] တန္းတူရည္တူျဖစ္မႈ။ Nations that had been oppressed for centuries were now fighting for a place in the sun. ❏ place-mat n ပန္းကန္ျပားခံ။ ❏ placement /'pleÇsmǝnt/ n [U, C] ထားျခင္း။ the placement of the ball ❍ The students spend the third year of the course on (a) placement with an industrial firm. ❏ place-name n ၿမိဳ႕ရြာေဒသအမည္။ an expert on the origin of place-names. ❏ place-setting n တစ္ေယာက္စာ ပန္းကန္၊ ဇြန္း၊ ခက္ရင္း စသည္ အခင္းအက်င္း။ ❏ placing n (အစဥ္၊ ဇယားတို႔တြင္) ဝင္သည့္အဆင့္။ The young athlete was satisfied with his final placing. ❍ Chart placings are determined by the number of records sold. ❏ put oneself in sb else's/sb's place [ IDM ] ကိုယ္ခ်င္းစာ ၾကည့္သည္။ ❏ put sb in their (proper) place [ IDM ] [ဥ] ခြၽတ္လိုက္ သည္။ အေၾကာင္းျပလိုက္သည္။ He tried to kiss her but she quickly put him in his place. ❏ take place [ IDM ] က်င္းပသည္။ ျဖစ္ပ်က္သည္။ When does the ceremony take place? ❍ We may never discover what took place (between them) that night. ❍ HAPPEN ❏ take sb's/sth's place; take the place of sb/sth [ IDM ] ကိုယ္စားဝင္သည္။ အစားထိုးသည္။ She couldn't attend the meeting so her assistant took her place. ❍ Nothing could take the place of the family/paintings he had lost.

Examples

1. I don’t like crowded places.
2. Let’s find a quiet place where we can talk.
3. Keep your credit cards in a safe place.
4. Will had broken his jaw in three places.
5. She put the book back in its place.
6. Cara walked back to her place and sat down.
7. [into place] : She shut the door and slid the bolt into place.
8. The mechanism locked into place.
9. They live in a small place called Clovelly.
10. With a bit of work this place could look lovely.
11. This is the only place that sells this type of bike.
12. The trip includes a visit to York and other places of interest.
13. A popular eating place
14. [place for] : Cyprus is a great place for a holiday.
15. [place to do something] : Is this a safe place to swim?
16. I always think Italy would be a great place to live.
17. They’ve bought a lovely little place in the countryside.
18. [your/my/her etc place] : Let’s have the party at my place.
19. [win/secure/earn/clinch a place] : Lewis has earned a place in the Olympic team.
20. Arsenal clinched a place in the semi-finals with a 2–0 win at Liverpool.
21. Nursery places for children are scarce in some parts of the country.
22. I must remember to book a place on the French course.
23. Course organizers are hoping that all the places will be filled.
24. [get/secure/win/gain a place] : Steven has secured a place at Manchester University.
25. [place on] : She was offered a place on the committee.
26. They’re looking for someone to fill Jackson’s place on the management team.
27. There’s no place to sit.
28. [lose your place] : I had to go to the toilet and lost my place in the queue.
29. [save/keep someone’s place] : Would you mind saving my place for a minute?
30. After a good performance at Wimbledon
31. she jumped six places in the world rankings.
32. [first/second etc place] : Sevilla finished in fifth place in the Champions’ League.
33. Rafferty completed his round in 69
34. to take third place at the halfway stage.
35. This isn’t the place to talk about the subject.
36. [neither the time nor the place] : This is neither the time nor the place to discuss our relationship.
37. He marked his place with a piece of paper.
38. [lose your place] : I lost my place (=forgot what I was saying) when he interrupted me.
39. The house will always have a place in our hearts.
40. A discussion about the place of soap operas in popular culture
41. [someone’s place in history] : De Klerk secured his place in history by releasing Mandela and starting the process of change.
42. A table set with three places
43. If you are set to live a long life
44. eating tofu and squid is the place to start.
45. Public buildings have put in place checkpoints at their entrances in the wake of a number of horrifying terror attacks.