placer

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Noun 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Noun 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Verb 2.3.1 Conjugation 2.3.2 Related terms 3 Spanish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 1 3.2.1 Verb 3.2.1.1 Conjugation 3.2.2 Noun 3.2.3 Related terms 3.3 Etymology 2 3.3.1 Noun

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology 1

Agent noun of place.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpleɪsə/

  Rhymes: -eɪsə(r)

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placer (plural placers)

1. Someone who places or arranges something.
2. (slang) Someone who deals in stolen goods; a fence.

[edit] Etymology 2

From American Spanish placer, earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese pracel.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈplæsə/, /ˈpleɪsə/

[edit] Noun

placer (plural placers)

1. (mining) A deposit of sand or earth in a river-bed etc. which contains particles of gold or other precious minerals.
   • 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 110:

     Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds.

   • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 46:

     Since time immemorial, people found that they could extract the gold from placer deposits by sifting the fine-grained material through a mesh: the technique of panning.

[edit] Etymology 3

From place + -er.

[edit] Noun

placer (plural placers)

1. (Australian, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother died and which transferred its attachment to a nearby locality.

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• Alphagram: acelpr
• carpel
• parcel

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From place.

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• IPA: /plase/

[edit] Verb

placer

1. to place (to put in a specific location)
2. to seat (To put an object into a place where it will rest)
3. (reflexive) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition)

[edit] Conjugation

• This verb is part of an group of -er verbs, for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

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place placé

placement placeur se placer

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /plaˈθeɾ/

[edit] Etymology 1

Latin placēre, present active infinitive of placeō.

[edit] Verb

placer (first-person singular present plazco, first-person singular preterite plací, past participle placido)

1. (literary) to please (somebody)

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[edit] Noun

placer m. (plural placeres)

1. pleasure; something done to please

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• complacer

[edit] Etymology 2

Related to placel ‘sandbank’, from plaza ‘place’.

[edit] Noun

placer m. (plural placeres)

1. (geology, mining) placer
2. (nautical) sandbank