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单词 emplace
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emplacev.

Brit. /ɪmˈpleɪs/, /ɛmˈpleɪs/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpleɪs/, /ɛmˈpleɪs/
Forms:

α. 1700s implace; Scottish pre-1700 implaist (past participle).

β. 1700s– emplace.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: en- prefix1, place v.
Etymology: < en- prefix1 + place v., perhaps originally after French emplacer to put in a certain place or position, to use (as) (1363 in Middle French as emplacier ). Compare emplacement n.With the α. forms compare im- prefix1.
1. transitive. To put in a certain place or position; to fix in place. Now frequently Military.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > situate
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emplacea1627
position1817
to set down1827
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a1627 W. Fowler tr. Petrarch Triumphs in Wks. (1914) I. 130 All which Dame Nature..Within hir..hart for honour had implaist.
1777 W. Green tr. Horace Odes iv. i. 162 Near his Alban lake, implace Thy polish'd form.
1833 tr. J. Duschesne Mus. Painting & Sculpt. XVII. (Notice of James Palme) On his return to Venice he became the rival of Tintoretto,..and was emplaced in works of great reputation in which he succeeded very well.
1865 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies III. v. 385 The shrine..was emplaced upon the topmost, or silver stage.
1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest xii. 269 A detachment of our escort had emplaced itself behind a low bank.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 10/6 Execution stakes..have been emplaced in the central market square.
1991 P. Fussell BAD 163 The ten-foot-tall head of Benjamin Franklin emplaced outside a firehouse in Philadelphia.
2010 T. P. Daly Rage Company iii. 58 Insurgents would hastily emplace victim-activated IEDs..after Pathfinder came through.
2. transitive. Military. To set up (a large gun or another weapon) in or on an emplacement (emplacement n. 3).
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1892 N.Y. Times 15 Mar. 1/4 It is probable that the heavy coast-defence guns, by the time they are emplaced,..will be supplied with the best of modern powder.
1900 Daily News 22 Jan. 3/2 This morning the Boers emplaced a five-pounder at the brick fields, and proceeded to drop shells into the market square.
1957 F. E. Vandiver Mighty Stonewall xiii. 314 About noon he reached the edge of the swamp and found Stapleton Crutchfield searching for a good position in which to emplace guns.
2003 C. Williford & T. McGovern Defenses Pearl Harbor & Oahu 40 This gun is being manned by the 55th Coast Artillery, and is emplaced on a Panama Mount.
3. transitive (frequently in passive). Geology. To place (rock or ore) in position, esp. by magmatic activity. Cf. emplacement n. 1b.
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1914 R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks & their Origin i. 2 Chapter V discusses the classification of the intrusive bodies which have been emplaced by simple injection.
1951 E. S. Larsen in Crystalline Rocks Southwestern Calif. 43 Before differentiation had progressed far, diastrophic forces acted on the crustal rocks and moved some of the magma toward the surface, thus emplacing the gabbro bodies.
1981 D. H. Rayner Stratigr. Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 411 Almost all the major metallic ore deposits in Britain are epigenetic, or discordant—that is, they were emplaced after the lithification or crystallization of the host rock.
2002 Jrnl. Petrol. 43 1726/1 A large, roughly north-south-trending belt of granitic intrusions and rhyolitic porphyries..was emplaced in the period 1.83–1.65 Ga.

Derivatives

emˈplaced adj.
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1898 Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion 30 June 12/2 Admiral Sampson's men were reducing the recently emplaced batteries at Aguadores.
1904 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 1/5 The besiegers have an elevated position, whence emplaced guns can command the fortress.
1941 Life 4 Aug. 41/1 Germany is then free to mass the strength of her great army and even of an inferior air force against the emplaced troops.
2007 Irish Jrnl. Earth Sci. 25 52/2 The emplaced breccia was still hot and ductile when voluminous dacite magma entered the dike fissure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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