TAKE PLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take place mean? 

• TAKE PLACE (verb)
  The verb TAKE PLACE has 1 sense:

1. come to pass

  Familiarity information: TAKE PLACE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE PLACE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to pass

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place

Context example:

Nothing occurred that seemed important

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take place"):

recur; repeat (happen or occur again)

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)

turn out (prove to be in the result or end)

fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)

break (happen or take place)

chance (be the case by chance)

backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)

bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)

bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

come around; roll around (happen regularly)

come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)

break; develop; recrudesce (happen)

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)

fall (occur at a specified time or place)

come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)

give (occur)

transpire (come about, happen, or occur)

intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)

result (come about or follow as a consequence)

arise; come up (result or issue)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Many changes take place in a cell after a hormone binds to its receptor.

(Hormone receptor, NCI Dictionary)

Hydrogenases are large proteins, but the active site – the region where chemical reactions take place – happens to be a much smaller metal-organic compound contained within the protein.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)

A type of unstable molecule that is made during normal cell metabolism (chemical changes that take place in a cell).

(Free radical, NCI Dictionary)

Interactions between the extracellular matrix and the actin cytoskeleton commonly take place at focal adhesions on the cell surface that contain localized concentrations of integrins, signaling molecules, and cytoskeletal elements.

(Integrin Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The chemical changes that take place in a cell or an organism.

(Intermediary Metabolic Process, NCI Dictionary)

The period of time over which the event or activity is intended to take place.

(Planned Duration, NCI Thesaurus)

She was happy even when they did take place; but not from any flow of spirits on his side, or any such expressions of tender gallantry as had blessed the morning.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The wedding is to take place quietly, in the church down below yonder; and then I shall waft you away at once to town.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The doctor had been in to say that some change, for better or worse, would probably take place about midnight, at which time he would return.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after the return to Hatherley Farm.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)