placers
Those finishing second
Placers are people or things that place—those who position, arrange, or finish in a particular standing.
In competitions, placers are contestants who achieve a ranked position: The top three placers received medals.
The word appears most often in compounds like second-placers or in contexts involving rankings and placements.
Lateral camera traverse
- sluiceGated water conduit
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
- prospectorsMineral deposit searchers
- goldrushMass migration seeking precious metal
claim · nuggets · hydraulic · cradle · miner · sourdoughs · stake · shovel
Water-deposited loose sediment
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- fluvialRelating to rivers
- alluvialDeposited by moving water
- clasticMade of rock fragments
terraces · glacial · deltaic · stratification · conglomerate · gravel · sand · silt
Floor beneath flowing water
- channelPassage for transmission
- gravel barAccumulated stream sediment
- sandbarUnderwater ridge of sediment
- watercourseChannel for flowing liquid
bedrock · meander · cobble · floodplain · confluence · tributary · braided · oxbow
panning
Lateral camera traverse
- sluiceGated water conduit
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
- prospectorsMineral deposit searchers
goldrush · claim · nuggets · hydraulic · cradle · miner · sourdoughs · stake · shovel · pickaxe
alluvium
Water-deposited loose sediment
clastic · terraces · glacial · deltaic · stratification · conglomerate · gravel · sand · silt · erosion
riverbed
Floor beneath flowing water
- channelPassage for transmission
- gravel barAccumulated stream sediment
- sandbarUnderwater ridge of sediment
watercourse · bedrock · meander · cobble · floodplain · confluence · tributary · braided · oxbow · crevice
placerswinners
Those who prevail
champions · victors · gold medalists · titleholders · conquerors
placerslosers
Unsuccessful competitors
also-rans · no-shows · dropouts · stragglers
- first placeWinning position
- take placeTo occur or happen
- out of placeNot where it belongs
- hiding placeConcealed refuge location
- in placeCorrectly positioned
- all over the placeScattered without order
place, places, replaced, replacement, misplaced, displace, misplace, displaced, displacement