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Definition of In place
1. Adverb. In the original or natural place or site. "The archeologists left the pottery in place"
Definition of In place
1. Adjective. In an original position. ¹
2. Adjective. In a proper position. ¹
3. Adjective. Established; in operation. ¹
4. Adverb. Without changing position. ¹
5. Adverb. Into position; into place. ¹
6. Adverb. (non-gloss definition Used as a location adverb for a figurative location) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of In Place
Literary usage of In place
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"Appointed 1st September, 1823, in recess of the Senate, in place of Brockholst
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 9th January, 1835, in place of William ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"(2) A physical tody is in place commensurably ... (3) A being is definitively in
place when it is entire in every portion of the space it occupies. ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"By studying this drawing carefully, and trying cross cuts and slits in the card
in place of the single hole, you will get a very correct idea of repeated ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The action of the sea is so tempestuous here that the engineers calculated that
stone blocks would have to be of about 350 cubic feet to remain in place. ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... Wiltshire, in place of Charles Fox, who elected to serve for Salisbury, and
was returned again 7 Jan. 1700-1. Upon Anne's accession he wished to retire ..."
6. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"Of the reporters of the decisions of the Supreme Court, Richard Peters, jr., Esq., of
Pennsylvania, was appointed, in 1828, in place of Henry Wheaton; ..."
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