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Place(medicine)
sur place(dictionary)
Place Bet(casino)
out-place(dictionary)
no place(dictionary)
place mat(dictionary)
My Place(tourism)
place name(dictionary)
Place(money)

Product Design (law) and place (iou)


Product Design (law)




Product design consists of the variety of elements which constitute the configuration of the product. Product configurations are protected as long as they are distinctive, and operate like a trademark. However, only those elements that were designed specifically to promote the product are protected; not the functional features of trade dress that have a utilitarian purpose.





place (iou)



place verb. LME.
[from PLACE noun1. Cf. French placer.]
verb trans. Set or position in a particular place or spot; put or bring into a particular state or situation. LME.
J. A. Froude Lord Russell was..placed under arrest. T. Hardy Vine had placed Margery in front of him. J. Steinbeck Placed a flower in a vase. A. Bleasdale Take the coffin..and place it on the trestles.
b. Arrange or dispose (a number of things) in proper or appropriate relative places. M16.
c. Sport. Guide (a ball) with careful control; Rugby Football score (a goal) from a place-kick. E19.
verb trans.
a. Appoint (a person) to a post, esp. as a member of the clergy. M16.
b. Arrange for the Employment, accommodation, Marriage, etc., of; settle (a person), put into the care of. Also foll. by forth, out. L16.
J. Buchan He placed his child in an English school.
c. Put (a thing) into a suitable or desirable place for a certain purpose; spec. (a) invest (money) (also foll. by out); (b) make or give out (an order) in order to be supplied with something; (c) dispose of or deliver (goods) to a customer; (d) arrange for the performance or publication of (a play, piece of Writing, etc.); (e) order or obtain a connection for (a telephone call), esp. through an operator. E18.
C. Angier The novel was hard to place, because publishers were afraid.
a. verb trans. Assign rank, importance, or worth to; rank, classify; assign to a particular place, setting, or date, locate. M16.
A. S. Neill I see that I place Politics before everything in Education. G. Greene Forced to place her stories in the Edwardian..past. P. Gay Darwin had undertaken to place man..in the animal kingdom.
b. verb trans. State the final position of (a horse etc.) in a race, among the first three or sometimes four, esp. Other than the winner's; in pass., finish a race in any of the first three, four, or (US) two positions, esp. Other than the winner's. E19.
T. Fitzgeorge-Parker Canardeau..won twenty-five races..and had been placed fifty-five times.
c. verb trans. Identify, recognize, or remember correctly; classify superficially or by guesswork. Orig. US. M19.
T. Collins I had met him before, but couldn't place him. P. H. Johnson Three or four couples.., anonymous, hard to place by class or even by race.
d. verb intrans. Achieve a certain final position in a race etc., spec. among the first three, four, or (US) two, esp. Other than the winner's. E20.
Arena In the Miss World contest..she places third.
verb trans. Put or repose (confidence, trust, importance, etc.) in or on a person or thing. E17.
A. Harding The trust which once I placed in Philip.
verb trans. Believe or assert (a quality, attribute, etc.) to consist or be found in something. Formerly also, ascribe (a fact, circumstance, etc.) to something as a cause. E17.
placeable adjective able or liable to be placed M16.