place - put

place - put
The verbs place and put are often used with the same meaning. Place is more formal than put, and is mainly used in writing.
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If you place something somewhere, you put it there. You often use place to say that someone puts something somewhere neatly or carefully.

She placed the music on the piano and sat down.

Each stone is firmly and correctly placed.

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If you place or put pressure on someone, you urge them to do something.

Renewed pressure will be placed on the Government this week.

For a long time he's been trying to put pressure on us.

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If you place or put an advert in a newspaper, you pay for the advert to be printed in the newspaper.

We placed an advert in an evening paper.

You could put an advert in the `Mail'.

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