LOCATE

settle, locate

(verb) take up residence and become established; “The immigrants settled in the Midwest”

locate, turn up

(verb) 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”

locate, place, site

(verb) assign a location to; “The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles”

situate, locate

(verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; “Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space”; “Locate the boundaries of the property”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

(transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

(transitive) To find out where something is located.

(transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

(intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

Anagrams

• Alecto, acetol, coleta

Source: Wiktionary

Lo"cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Located; p. pr. & vb. n. Locating.] Etym: [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.

Definition: To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition