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position / place / seat / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to put in order / to arrange / to decorate / to fix up / to deploy
HSK 4
to find a place for / to help settle down / to arrange for / to get into bed / placement
HSK 4
to install / installation / equipment / system / unit / device
HSK 4
to set up; to install
HSK 4
to deploy / to allocate / configuration / allocation
HSK 6
(idiom) to put (an issue) to one side for the moment
premodifier (grammar)
to set sth aside / to let sth lie idle / idle / unused
to purchase
to shelve / to set aside
HSK 7-9
to handle / to take care of / to punish
HSK 7-9
built-in; internal
unquestionable
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *置* | 置* | *置
to install / to place / to put / to buy
HSK 7-9
(idiom) hard to believe; incredible
HSK 7-9
to put
HSK 7-9
unbelievable; incredible
decline to comment / not express an opinion / be noncommittal / hedge
to refuse to comment / same as 不置可否
to place before / frontal; leading / pre-
to make no comment / "no comment"
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect / to stress the incidental over the fundamental / to put the cart before the horse
external (i.e. not built-in 內置|内置)
to invert
to permute / permutation (math.) / to displace / displacement / to replace / replacement
to throw away / to discard
to purchase / to buy
(computing) factory settings
to dismiss with a laugh / to make light of
to transpose
to doubt
to give one's bare heart into sb else's keeping (idiom); sb has one's absolute confidence / to trust completely / to confide in sb with entire sincerity
to buy / to acquire / to add to one's possessions
screensaver (Tw)
improvised explosive device (IED)
detonator
to believe (what sb claims) (usually used in the negative) / (math.) confidence (interval etc)
to insert / to implant / to embed / to introduce (a new element) into
lit. place on a high shelf / to pay no attention to (idiom)
to leave sth unused / to lie idle
geographical location
to pay no heed to (idiom) / to ignore / to brush aside
locker / cabinet
(math.) permutation group
to place oneself / to stay
cannot be doubted (idiom)
to handle / to arrange
to handle easily (idiom); effortless
cannot be doubted (idiom)
to put / to place
automatic tool changer (ATC)
to pass by without showing interest (idiom)
(idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation
product placement
to put sth in the wrong place
to set to one side and ignore (idiom); quite indifferent / cold and uncaring
to set up; to establish / facilities / (government) agency; authority
to abolish the feudal Han and introduce modern prefectures (refers to reorganization during Meiji Japan)
postposition / suffix / word placed after
nuclear explosion device
to give no thought to / to have no regard for / to disregard
(statistics) confidence interval
missense mutation
nuclear device
rig
to offer an opinion / to comment (on the issue) / to have a say (in the matter)
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse
to leave in place; to set aside (for further use); to retain / to detain (a suspect or offender) / (medicine) indwelling
to sticky (an Internet forum thread etc)
peremptory / not to be denied / not brooking argument
confidence coefficient (math.)
to place in; to put in (a position)
ink supply mechanism
(coll.) to put (things) back; to tidy up; to put in order
offset / biasing (electronics) / bias voltage
to get angry; to take offense
(idiom) not to get involved; to stay out of it
sense of being in another time and place / feeling that one has entered a time warp
position effect
bias impedance (electronics)
having elements from another time or place
centered alignment (typography)
confidence limit (math.)
to argue
(cinema, theater) to dress the set
to relocate / to evacuate
preposition
pointing device (computing)
confidence level (math.)
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
postmodifier (grammar)
relative position
to place after (e.g. in grammar) / postposition
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
aircraft takeoff and landing gear
(automobile) transmission
BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
mobile device (Tw)
GPS (Global Positioning System)

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