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TAKE PLACE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come to pass
Example:
Nothing occurred that seemed important
Synonyms:
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take place"):
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
break (happen or take place)
chance (be the case by chance)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
give (occur)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
result (come about or follow as a consequence)
arise; come up (result or issue)
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Context examples:
A protein that is made by many different types of cells and is involved in processes that take place both inside and outside of the cell.
(calgranulin A, NCI Dictionary)
I came back and went on with my work; and here the episode ended for the time, though further developments were yet to take place.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The clinical situation does not demand that the procedure take place at a specified time.
(Elective Surgical Procedure, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Nothing is more certain than that it never can take place, and never will.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
An instance of an event or incident that is intended to take place.
(Planned Occurrence, NCI Thesaurus)
She would take place of me then, and Henrietta would not dislike that.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
We were told this when young, and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The strangest things do take place!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His marriage must still be a distant good;—at least, I am afraid it cannot take place very soon.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The battle will take place upon Crawley Downs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
