EMPLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emplace mean? 

• EMPLACE (verb)
  The verb EMPLACE has 2 senses:

1. provide a new emplacement for guns

2. put into place or position

  Familiarity information: EMPLACE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPLACE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they emplace    ... he / she / it emplaces   
Past simple: emplaced   
Past participle: emplaced   
-ing form: emplacing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide a new emplacement for guns

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "emplace" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Verb group:

emplace (put into place or position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

emplacement (military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put into place or position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar

Hypernyms (to "emplace" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Verb group:

emplace (provide a new emplacement for guns)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

emplacement (the act of putting something in a certain place)

 Context examples 

Mercury’s ice deposits appear to be much less patchy than those on the Moon, and relatively fresh, perhaps emplaced or refreshed within the last tens of millions of years.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)