About The Word Locate
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Locate
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What's The Definition Of Locate?
[v] take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
[v] discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" [v] assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [v] determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Can you locate China on the map?" Synonyms | Synonyms for Locate: place | settle | site | situate | turn up Related Terms | Find terms related to Locate: allocate | anchor | assign | base | billet at | bivouac | burrow | camp | chance upon | collocate | colonize | come across | come to anchor | deploy | determine | discover | dispose | domesticate | drop anchor | emplace | ensconce | establish | establish residence | find | find out | fix | get | get a fix | hit | hit upon | hive | home in on | hunt down | inhabit | install | invent | keep house | live at | localize | moor | move | navigate | nest | park | people | perch | pin down | pinpoint | place | populate | position | put in place | rediscover | relocate | reside | roost | run down | run to earth | set up | set up housekeeping | set up shop | settle | settle down | sit down | site | situate | spot | squat | stand | stay at | strike | strike root | take residence at | take root | take up residence | trace | trace down | track down | triangulate | turn up | unearth | zero in on See Also | ascertain | base | colonise | colonize | determine | find | find | find out | localise | localize | map | move | nail | pinpoint | place | post | radiolocate | regain | resettle | send | station | unearth Locate In Webster's Dictionary \Lo"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Located}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Locating}.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus
place. See {Local}.]
1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him
were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. --B. F.
Westcott.
2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits
of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining
claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
located. --H. Spencer.
\Lo"cate\, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.] |
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