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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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