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Put in position
Answer for the clue "Put in position ", 7 letters:
emplace
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Word definitions for emplace in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, in modern use a back-formation from emplacement . Related: Emplaced .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. provide a new emplacement for guns put into place or position; "the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emplace \Em*place"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emplaced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emplacing .] [Cf. F. emplacer. See En- ; Place , v. & n.] To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.
Usage examples of emplace.
In four days of the fiercest type of fighting, against a stubborn and well- emplaced enemy, the main Japanese defense line west of Baguio was broken, and the attack was tremendously accelerated.
There, in pre-Islamic times, it was emplaced in a Meccan temple, the Kaaba, and offered something akin to worship.
But aside from the vast cost and the point - assuming a portal would be heading in the other direction before too long - that it would be a waste of time and effort which would bring reconnection no quicker, there was one clinching argument that would apply until either no signal arrived from Zenerre or word came of an utter breakdown in civil society: in the Mercatoria only Engineers were allowed to make and emplace wormholes.
Four new axles were emplaced between the fore and aft pairs of duralloy runners beneath the motionless icerigger.
Why not invest the city, throw up siegeworks, emplace our engines and simply sit and pound and burn and starve the bastards out?
Well-protected batteries lay emplaced in positions from which they could inflict a deadly crossfire upon the ranks of an advancing enemy, while twos and threes of light cannon were interspersed among and between the tercios of pikemen and musketeers, all along the front.
And anyway, she told the grand marshall, she thought there might be antimissile weapons emplaced around the laboratory.
The Firelords' calliopes, emplaced on the escarpment and manned by professionals, made that notion suicide.
On the south end of the bridge, an M-9 armored combat engineer vehicle, called an ACE, was cutting a hasty anti-vehicle ditch on either side of the roadway leading up to the bridge, while a squad of her people finished emplacing a cratering charge on the roadway itself.
Working in furious haste, he took the sides from marked crates using detents as they'd shown him, then began to emplace the bags—and there were hundreds of them.
It had been relayed from Yoshikawa, and it reported that no barrage balloons had yet been emplaced to protect the fleet from air attack.
Pertin put his weight behind the channel iron he had been about to emplace at the door and launched it towards the pair.
Locally emplaced minefields, some claymores, some Bouncing Bettys and M-833s.
Meanwhile teams of women and teenagers emplaced claymores and other mines along the verge.
He handed one to each of the chosen privates as they emplaced the charges to blow the tunnel.