the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar.
Examples of emplace
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Nelson began to land guns from his ships and emplace them in the hills surrounding the town.
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After the Turks were able to emplace their guns, at the end of May they commenced a bombardment.
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Predictably, he advised me to emplace the barrier along the wadi.
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The executive-legislative crisis of the fall of 1993 prompted Yeltsin to emplace constitutional obstacles to legislative removal of the president.
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Through the DLT, the system operators can remotely emplace, slew or stow launchers, perform diagnostics on launchers or missiles, and fire missiles.
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To emplace the bombs where they are most likely to kill, the Taliban watch the Marines'habits carefully, including how small units react in the first instants of a firefight.
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For cases like this the system will have a range of watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.
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This means a cooperative effort by the DoD proponent, USSOCOM and TRADOC is needed to develop, emplace and support a good training regimen for the broader Army to be implemented on order.
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Provide a new emplacement for guns
Put into place or position; "the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar"
(emplacement) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon
(emplacement) placement: the act of putting something in a certain place
To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place
(emplacement) An installation that houses a military weapon; A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere; The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body in older rocks. The latter is referred to as ore deposition
(Emplaced) Means "to put in place or position" and therefore indicated the foundation is whatever was at the spot the light tower was positioned.
(EMPLACEMENT) a place prepared for, or the positioning of, a heavy weapon, such as an artillery piece; see BARBETTE, BUNKER, COVER, DEFILADE, REDOUBT, REVETMENT. [v: Military Earthworks Terms]
(Emplacement) This character cannot move or be moved by another effect (such as Force Push), nor can its position be changed through other effects. You may set it up anywhere on your half of the battle map instead of in the normal starting area.