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placing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpleɪsɪŋ//

The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of placepresent participle and gerund of place

noun

  1. 1

    The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning.

    There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.

  2. 2

    The condition of being placed.

  3. 3

    The position of a competitor at the end of a race.

Forms

plural
placings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).