In Place

Definition: In Place

In Place

Adverb

1. In the original or natural place or site; "carcinoma in situ"; "the archeologists left the pottery in place".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: In Place

Interchange

Adverb: instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.

Situation

Adverb: in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts; in place, here, there.

Substitution

Adverb: instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.

Crosswords: In Place

I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this. In place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

So, Captain Baumann, I trust that in the event of an emergency, at least the explosives are in place to blow up the bridge? (The Bridge at Remagen; writing credit: Roger O. Hirson; Richard Yates)

Oh and checking everything is in place (I Can't Dance; performing artist: Genesis)

You're looking so good, everything's in place (COVER GIRL; performing artist: New Kids On The Block)

I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears. (Buy For Me the Rain; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

A synonym is a word you use in place of one you can't spell. (references; author: unknown)

In Place of the Heart (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art : Looking at Pictures in Place (reference)

• Aging in Place With Dignity: International Solutions Relating to the Low-Income and Frail Elderly (reference)

• Transported, in place of death : convicts in Australia (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Carpenter: Kra Kat/Gilbert: The Dance In Place Congo/Weiss: American Life/Powell: Rhapsodie Nègre (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mouse PS2 Gray with 2ft In Place Of Ball- No Remov Parts Maint (reference)

• Mouse PS2 with 2ft In Place Of Ball 2 & 3btn Sets Maint. Free (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is an experimental miniature pig. The experimental animal is being held in place by rubber-tube covered arms in a laboratory setting. Some cans are visible on shelves behind the animal. The miniature pig has an unusually thick placenta that prevents sow's immune system from influencing that of offspring. Raised in a sterile environment, such piglets are vital in providing clues as to how the immune system develops. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

An adult black man is pictured here alone. He was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma in his upper left arm. Surgeons performed a new procedure implanting a metal rod in place of the cancerous bone. Since muscle and tendon were saved, he is able to use his left arm. Surgeons could attempt this daring new technique since the cancer had not spread. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

This version of the Ped-O-Jet has a strap that holds vaccine bottle in place keeping the bottle from working loose during operations. Prior to this model, clamps were the only way the bottle was held in place. Credit: CDC.

Constructing a floating buoy signal Buoy in place For use by East Coast wiredrag party. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Both sides of observer scaffolding in place at Station Foss Photo #3 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A contractor fits the ladder into the place where the dam was notched to hold the ladder in place. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

In the foreground, an Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta, fragment is reattached to the reef. Stainless steel nails are holding the wire in place. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Navy divers assisting in the placement of used tires as an alternate reef material on the artificial reef site at Pokai Bay, Oahu. The tires did not stay in place because of the strong surge of the large Pacific swells at the site. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 30. High pressure bottle devised by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1890. The manometer was set in place after the bottle's return from the deep ocean in order to measure the pressure of the water sample. This bottle was used for collecting water samples at depth and returning them to the surface at the ambient water pressure at the depth of the sample. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Second stage of Thor-Able rocket being set in place prior to launching TIROS I. In: "Weather Analysis from Satellite Observations, " U.S. Navy Research Facility, December 1960. Figure 1.2. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

First, That when such a single person, or prince, sets up his own arbitrary will in place of the laws, which are the will of the society, declarad by the legislative, then the legislative is changed: for that being in effect the legislative, whose rules and laws are put in execution, and required to be obeyed; when other laws are set up, and other rules pretended, and inforced, than what the legislative, constituted by the society, have enacted, it is plain that the legislative is changed. (Second Treatise of Government)

It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. (reference)

The Allied and Associated Governments interested may demand the delivery, in place of coal, of metallurgical coke in the proportion of 3 tons of coke to 4 tons of coal. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

However, if the geometric line is in place anywhere, it surely is in the stercorary trenches of a great city.

Al held the tube tight while Tom put the patch tenderly in place.

I love better to see stones in place.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Schools must have plans in place to address any emergency. (references)

Periodontitis is an infection of the tissues that hold the teeth in place. (references)

It is easily wrapped around your stomach and held in place under your shirt. (references)

Business

Some products may be subject to regulations in addition to or in place of NOMs. (references)

In the last four years tour operators have put in place strong marketing efforts. (references)

Nevertheless, much of the accumulated contamination of the past is still in place. (references)

Children

Kyrgyz Republic

In practice few special provisions were in place to allow persons with disabilities access to transportation, public buildings, and mass media. (references)

Lithuania

Legal provisions for access to buildings for the disabled are in place but are not enforced widely; the vast majority of public buildings remain inaccessible. (references)

Malta

The 2000 Persons with Disabilities Act built on provisions in the public employment and accessibility laws and requires the private sector to apply equal employment guarantees already in place in the public sector. (references)

Civil Liberties

Czech Republic

A legal and institutional framework is in place for the processing of refugees and asylees. (references)

Thailand

Laws prohibiting speech likely to insult Buddhism remain in place under the 1997 Constitution. (references)

Kenya

In June the Government announced that it would not issue any more licenses to broadcast in Nairobi until new policies were in place. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

CAPITAL CONTROLS ARE STILL IN PLACE. (references)

Austria

Criminal penalties for insider trading are in place. (references)

Guinea

The new regulations should be in place by the year 2001. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

There is a functioning bail system in place. (references)

Bhutan

By September a department head and all staff were in place. (references)

Yugoslavia

Many of the judges appointed under Milosevic remained in place. (references)

Minorities

China

Government development policies have long been in place to improve minority living standards. (references)

Mauritania

In 1999 the National Assembly approved educational reforms to replace the separate track Arabic-French system of education, which had been in place for 20 years, with a unified system for all citizens in which both French and Arabic would be the languages of instruction for all students. (references)

Political Economy

Somalia

A ban on political parties in Puntland remained in place. (references)

Political Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The OSCE conducted general elections in 1996, 1998, and 2000, municipal elections in 1997 and 2000, and special elections for the RS National Assembly in 1997. With an election law in place, responsibility for conducting elections shifts to Bosnian authorities. (references)

Niger

The Constitution granted a general amnesty to the perpetrators of the 1996 and 1999 coups; the amnesty was approved during the first session of the National Assembly in 2000. The Constitution also allowed governmental authorities to remain in place until new elections were held. (references)

Tunisia

The Chamber that emerged from the October 1999 parliamentary elections was more pluralistic than the Chamber in place from 1994 to 1999, as October 1998 changes in the Electoral Code reserved 20 percent of the seats for the opposition parties, distributed on a proportional basis to those parties that did not win directly elected district seats. (references)

Trade

Nicaragua

Few export controls remain in place. (references)

Honduras

This facility will be in place until 2009. (references)

Austria

Agreements are in place with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Mexico. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

Family members of those working are not required by law to surrender their passports, though they often do. Residents carry a Saudi residence permit (Iqama) for identification in place of their passports. (references)

Azerbaijan

As of September 2001, there is no U.S. State Department travel advisory in place for Azerbaijan, however worldwide announcements for US citizens to exercise caution overseas are just as applicable in Azerbaijan as in other countries. (references)

Women

Indonesia

However, by year's end, no rape investigation standards were in place, nor were uniform procedures followed. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

There is no plan or program in place to assist trafficking victims. (references)

Congo

The Government does not have any programs in place to prevent this practice. (references)

Samoa

Arbitration and mediation procedures are in place to resolve labor disputes, although such disputes rarely arise. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "in place": be in place ♦ hold in place ♦ in place of ♦ put back in place ♦ relief in place ♦ stay in place ♦ value of new construction put in place ♦ work put in place. Additional references.

Albanian

në vend të (for, in lieu of, in place of, instead, instead of, vice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عوضا عن (for, in exchange for, in lieu of, in place of, instead, instead of). (various references)

Chinese 

施行 (to put in place), 充 (fill, fulfill, full, satisfy, substitute, sufficient, to act in place of), � � (an earthwork, castle, character used in place names, position of defense, stronghold). (various references)

Czech

namísto (in place of, instead of). (various references)

Danish

in situ forsøg (in situ test, test in place, test in situ), værdi af nyopførte bygninger (value of new construction put in place), spulning (clean in place, jetting), gennemskylning (clean in place), forvaerk med drejelig eller svingbar afspaerringsboejle holder dyrene paa plads under fodringen (animals are kept in place by a swivelling gate, during feeding), forlaengerforingsroer faststoebes af og til eller anbringes ved hjaelp af pakningsenheder foroven eller forneden,eller begge steder,eller ogsaa saettes de blot ned i bunden af borehullet (liners are sometimes cemented in place or set with packers at their top or bottom or both, or sometimes merely set on the bottom of the well), foer fremkomsten af det komplette transportable boreudstyr,var det noedvendigt at efterlade boretaarnet paa stedet over boringen til brug ved senere arbejde med overhaling af boringen (before the advent of the portable well-service unit, it was necessary to leave the derrick in place over the well for use in future well-service operations), CIP (clean in place). (various references)

Dutch

zeefpijpen worden soms gecementeerd of aan boven-en/of ondereind vastgezet met pakkers;ze worden ook wel eenvoudig op de bodem van de put geplaatst (liners are sometimes cemented in place or set with packers at their top or bottom or both, or sometimes merely set on the bottom of the well), waarde van een nieuwe constructie (value of new construction put in place), voor de komst van de verplaatsbare putbehandelingsinstallatie moest de boortoren ten behoeve van latere putwerkzaamheden boven de put blijven staan (before the advent of the portable well-service unit, it was necessary to leave the derrick in place over the well for use in future well-service operations), voerrekken met opklapbare of draaibare afsluitstijlen houden het dier op zijn plaats tijdens het voederen (animals are kept in place by a swivelling gate, during feeding), terreinproef (in situ test, test in place, test in situ), proef in situ (in situ test, test in place, test in situ). (various references)

Finnish

pysyä paikoillaan (keep in position, stay in one's place, stay in place), kiertopesu (C.I.P., clean in place), jonkin sijaan (in place of, in return for, instead of), jonkin asemesta (in place of, instead of). (various references)

French

indice du coût de la construction (value of new construction put in place), une combinaison plate-forme/tender d'assistance requiert un temps de construction et de montage sur le site moindre q'une plate-forme fixe autonome,du fait que les équipements modulaires sont déj� en place sur le tender et peuvent être opérationnels (a platform-tender combination involves less construction ang rig-up time than a self-contained fixed platform because the components on the tender are already in place and can be put into operation at once), tenir en place (stay in place), nettoyage en place (clean in place), nettoyage en circuit fermé (clean in place), NEP (clean in place), l'essai de production se fait � l'aide du "tester de formation",appareil composé d'un obturateur et d'un ensemble de vannes manoeuvrés depuis la surface,fixé au bout du train de tiges,� la place du trépan, les colonnes perdues sont parfois cimentées en place ou ancrées au moyen de packers ou garnitures d'étanchéité,disposées � la partie supérieure de la colonne ou � sa partie inférieure ou aux deux extrémités;parfois elles sont simplement posée (liners are sometimes cemented in place or set with packers at their top or bottom or both), le cornadis � barreaux avec barreaux pivotants ou mobiles en V pour le passage de la tête retient la bête � sa place pendant l'alimentation (animals are kept in place by a swivelling gate), essai in situ (in situ test, test in place, test in situ), décor unique (a stage setting in which the chief components remain fixed in place for an entire performance..), commercer (act in place of), CIP (clean in place, Political Institutions Committee, prior informed consent), avant l'apparition des unités mobiles d'essais et de traitement des puits,il était indispensable de maintenir la tour de forage en place sur le puits,afin de pouvoir l'utiliser lors d'opérations ultérieures sur le puits (it was necessary to leave the derrick in place over the well for use in future well-service operations). (various references)

German

an stelle von (in place of, instead of). (various references)

Greek 

ένας συνδυασμός εξέδρας/φορτηγίδας υποστηρίξεως απαιτεί ένα χρονικό διάστημα κατασκευής και συναρμολογήσεως επί τόπου μικρότερο από ό,τι (a platform-tender combination involves less construction ang rig-up time than a self-contained fixed platform because the components on the tender are already in place and can be put into operation at once), στην θέση (in place of), πριν από την εμφάνιση των κινητών μονάδων δοκιμών και επεξεργασίας των πηγαδιών,ήταν απαραίτητο να διατηρήσουμε τον πύργο της γεωτήσεως σ� (it was necessary to leave the derrick in place over the well for use in future well-service operations), η πρόσδεση με κάγκελο στρεφόμενο η κινούμενο,σχήματος V,για το πέρασμα της κεφαλής κρατάει το ζώο στη θέση του κατά τη διάρκεια τηςτροφοδοσ� (animals are kept in place by a swivelling gate), επί τόπου δοκιμή (in situ test, test in place, test in situ). (various references)

Hebrew 

במקום (for, in lieu of, in place of, instead of, vice). (various references)

Hungarian

helyett (for, in lieu of, in place of, in the room of, instead of, to answer for sy, vicariously, vice). (various references)

Italian

indice del costo di costruzione (value of new construction put in place), i liners sono qualchevolta cementati in posto o sigillati mediante dei packers sulla loro superiore o inferiore,o su entrambe,o qualchevolta semplicemente appoggiati al fondo pozzo (liners are sometimes cemented in place or set with packers at their top or bottom or both, or sometimes merely set on the bottom of the well), vertere (act, act in place of, floatation, glide, hang, hover, waver), situato davanti alla mangiatoia,il grigliato a barre girevoli o mobili a V,trattiene la testa dell'animale al suo posto,durante il pasto (animals are kept in place by a swivelling gate, during feeding), rappresentare (act, act for, act in place of, be an agent for, depict, enact, feature, give, mean, perform, play, represent, show, sit, stage, stand for, symbolise, symbolize), pulizia in situ (C.I.P., clean in place), pulizia in circuito chiuso (C.I.P., clean in place), pulizia a circuito chiuso (C.I.P., clean in place), prova in sito (in situ test, test in place, test in situ), prima dell'avvento delle unit� trasportabili d'intervento sui pozzi,era necessario lasciare la torre in loco sul foro,per poterla usare nel caso di ulteriori interventi (before the advent of the portable well-service unit, it was necessary to leave the derrick in place over the well for use in future well-service operations), la combinazione piattaforma-nave appoggio richiede un tempo di costruzione e di montaggio minore di quello richiesto da una piattaforma fissa autonoma,perchè le parti componenti della nave appoggio sono gi� piazzate e possono essere subito operative,non (a platform-tender combination involves less construction ang rig-up time than a self-contained fixed platform because the components on the tender are already in place and can be put into operation at once, as soon as anchors are deployed and the tender is pulled up to the platform), cip (C.I.P., clean in place, Political Institutions Committee), al posto di (for, in place of). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蟄伏 (hibernation, staying home or in place), 父の代わりとして (in place of one's father), 成り代わる (to do in place of or on behalf of), 就く (position, to settle in place, to study under teacher, to take seat), 代願人 (one who offers prayer in place of another), 代待ち (waiting in place of someone else). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なりかわる (to become, to change, to change into, to do in place of or on behalf of), ちっぷく (hibernation, staying home or in place), ちちのかわりとして (in place of one's father), � いが�"に�" (one who offers prayer in place of another), � いまち (waiting in place of someone else). (various references)

Manx

ayns ynnyd jeh (in lieu of, in place of, instead of). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay aceplay

Portuguese

NEP (C.I.P., clean in place), limpeza em circuito fechado (C.I.P., clean in place), limpeza automática (C.I.P., clean in place), em vez de (either, else, in lieu of, in place of, instead of, rather than, vice), em lugar de (else, for, in lieu of, in place of, vice), CIP (C.I.P., clean in place), a grade guilhotina,automática ou manual em V,para a passagem de cabeça retém o animal no seu lugar durante o período de alimentação (animals are kept in place by a swivelling gate, during feeding). (various references)

Romanian

cu slujbã, angajat (employed, employee, engaged, foul, hireling, super). (various references)

Russian 

уместный (apposite, apropos, felicitous, germane, pertinent, pointful, relevant), на месте (in situ, on the spot, on-the-spot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umesto (instead of, lieu: in lieu of, place: in place of, vice), na mesto (place: in place of). (various references)

Spanish

versar (act, act in place of, treat), valor de obra de nueva planta (value of new construction put in place), los liners a veces se cementan in situ o se sellan con packers en su parte superior o inferior o en ambos, o, a veces, se apoyan simplemente el fondo del pozo (liners are sometimes cemented in place or set with packers at their top or bottom or both, or sometimes merely set on the bottom of the well), limpieza in situ (C.I.P., clean in place), limpieza en circuito cerrado (C.I.P., clean in place), L.I.S. (C.I.P., clean in place), ensayo in situ (in situ test, test in place, test in situ), en lugar de (in lieu of, in place of, instead of), el ensayo de producción se lleva a cabo con ayuda del aparato de ensayo de la formación, compuesto por un obturador y un conjunto de válvulas accionadas desde la superficie, fijado al extremo inferior del varillaje de perforación en el lugar de la bro (a production test is carried out with the aid of a formation tester, a tool fixed at the bottom of the drill string in place of the bit and composed of a packer and valve assembly operated from the surface), cip (C.I.P., clean in place), antes de la aparicion de las unidades transportables de ensayo y tratamiento de pozos, era necesario mantener la torre de perforacion situada sobre el pozo para poder utilizarla en operaciones po steriores (before the advent of the portable well-service unit, it was necessary to leave the derrick in place over the well for use in future well-service operations), al revés de (in place of). (various references)

Swedish

in situ-försök (in situ test, test in place, test in situ), i stället för (in lieu of, in place of, instead of), ligga på sin plats (be in place), hålla kvar (hold in place, keep, retain), försök på platsen (in situ test, test in place, test in situ). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde (answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, condign, conformable, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitted, grandiloquent, in, in one's stead, just, legitimate, on the premises, opportune, Pat, pertinent, pointed, pro-, proper, pursuant, rightful, snappy, sound, suitable, valid, well, well-judged), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched). (various references)

Turkmen 

яerine (in place of). (various references)

Ukrainian

замість (either, for, in lieu of, in place of, instead, instead of, vice). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"In Place" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inplace. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: capelin, panicle, pelican.

-1 letter: alpine, apneic, caplin, epical, inlace, pencil, penial, pineal, plaice, plicae.

-2 letters: alien, aline, anile, clean, cline, elain, ileac, lance, lapin, liane, linac, panel, panic, pecan, penal, pical, pilea, place, plain, plane, plena, plica.

-3 letters: acne, alec, anil, cain, cane, cape, ceil, cine, clan, clap, clip, elan, epic, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lane, lean.

+1 letter: capelins, cephalin, manciple, panicled, panicles, pelicans, pinnacle.

+2 letters: analeptic, appliance, campanile, candlepin, cephalins, cisalpine, emplacing, incapable, inclasped, inculpate, manciples, parceling, percaline, pinnacled, pinnacles, pleaching, pliancies, policeman, porcelain, replacing.

+3 letters: analeptics, antipolice, appliances, beclasping, calipering, campaniles, candlepins, cephalexin, complained, complainer, compliance, enclasping, epicentral, escaloping, inculpable, inculpated, inculpates, neophiliac, neoplastic, opalescing, paniculate, parcelling, peculating, peculation, penicillia, percalines, placidness, plasticene, plasticine, pleonastic, porcelains, pratincole, preplacing, reclasping, republican, scaloppine, spanceling, suppliance.