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colocar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • embed verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • enclose verb To surround an area with a wall, fence, or other barrier.
  • place noun A particular area, location, or spot.
  • pose verb To hold a particular position of the body, often for a photo or painting.
  • put verb To move something into a particular place or position.
  • set verb To put something in a particular place or position.

Senses

colocar is used for these senses in English:

  • buckle up (intransitive, idiomatic) To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
  • embed (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • enclose (transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
  • place (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
  • pose (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
  • put To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
  • set (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.

embed — full definition

  1. verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  2. verb To include (something) in surrounding matter.
  3. verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
  4. verb To define a one-to-one function from one set to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.

enclose — full definition

  1. verb To surround an area with a wall, fence, or other barrier.
  2. verb To put something inside an envelope or package along with the main contents.

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