Definition

1. Verb:
   • To put into a specific place or position: To deliberately place or position something, often with care or for a specific purpose.
   • To provide a prepared position for a weapon: In a military context, to install or position a gun or artillery piece in its firing location.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:
  • The museum curators will carefully emplace the ancient statue in the new gallery.
  • The soldiers worked through the night to emplace the howitzers on the ridge overlooking the valley.

Advanced Usage

• "to emplace something on/in something": A common construction describing the act of putting an object in a specific location.
  • The engineers emplaced the cornerstone of the building with a formal ceremony.
• Used in formal, technical, or military writing to denote a deliberate and often strategic act of placement.

Variants and Related Words

• Emplacement (n): The act of putting something in a certain place; a prepared position for a military weapon.
  • The artillery emplacement was well camouflaged.
• Place (v): A more common and general synonym for putting something somewhere.

Synonyms

• Position: To put in a particular place.
• Install: To place or fix equipment or machinery in position ready for use.
• Situate: To fix or build in a certain place.

Antonyms

• Remove: To take away from a place.
• Displace: To move from the proper or usual place.

Notes

• "Emplace" is a formal and somewhat specialized verb. In everyday language, "place," "put," or "position" are more frequently used. Its most common contemporary use is in military, engineering, archaeological, or museological contexts.

Verb

1. put into place or position
   • the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar
2. provide a new emplacement for guns