What's the difference between place and topography?

Place


Definition:

  • (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
  • (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
  • (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
  • (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
  • (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
  • (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
  • (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
  • (n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
  • (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
  • (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
  • (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
  • (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
  • (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
  • (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (2) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (3) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (5) Other research has indicated that placing gossypol in the vagina does inhibit the effect of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection, however.
  • (6) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (7) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (8) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (9) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (10) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (11) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (13) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
  • (14) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (15) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
  • (16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (17) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (18) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
  • (19) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
  • (20) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.

Topography


Definition:

  • (n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
  • (2) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
  • (3) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
  • (4) These topographies enabled us to observe serial changes in epileptic discharge dynamically by 1 msec.
  • (5) The topography of the expression on the trophectoderm is striking and novel.
  • (6) Nevertheless, a wide clinical spectrum was found varying from pictures correlating with the topography and extent of the MRI-detected anomaly to conditions indicating wider cerebral involvement.
  • (7) Twenty monoclonal antibodies (MAb) against human growth hormone (hGH) were used to establish the antigenic topography of this protein.
  • (8) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
  • (9) We have mapped cochlear nerve terminations in the cochlear nucleus with DiI and, using three-dimensional reconstructions, have demonstrated the topography and geometry of the cochlear input.
  • (10) The classification, when considered together with improved angiographic technique and microsurgery, allows exact preoperative and peroperative definition of topography which in turn enables the avoidance of injury to functionally important typical and atypical central branches of the posterior cerebral artery.
  • (11) This study showed that digital computerised tomography indicates the extent and topography of the necrosis and provides true histo-radiological sections.
  • (12) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy enabled the topography to be established more precisely including the degree of compression (in 14 cases) and showed evidence of associated tracheomalacia in 7 cases.
  • (13) Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequences from HKB3 and MEB3 reveals a high degree of sequence homology (71%) and conservation of the overall topography of the transmembrane domain.
  • (14) The proximal topography of the left common carotid artery ostium is a useful sign in the diagnosis of this kind of abnormality.
  • (15) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
  • (16) Afferents to the nucleus accumbens have been studied with the retrograde transport of unconjugated wheatgerm agglutinin as detected by immunohistochemistry using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method, in order to define precisely afferent topography from the cortex, thalamus, midbrain and amygdala.
  • (17) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
  • (18) The particularities of the topography and the histological structure of the wall are presented and the diagnostical delimination compared with cysts of other pathogenesis are discussed.
  • (19) Our computer-based corneal topography analysis system was used to study the keratoscope photographs (keratograms) from two patients with classic pellucid marginal degeneration and a third patient with no inferior corneal thinning, whose keratoscope mire pattern was suggestive of the condition.
  • (20) These differ in RNA contents, in the distribution pattern of RNA in the cytoplasm, in the intensity of the Feulgen reaction and the topography of DNA in the nucleus, and in the contents and distribution of both the nucleic acids in the kinetoplast.