Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
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
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