In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
SITE
site, situation
(noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings; “the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides”
site, land site
(noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); “a good site for the school”
locate, place, site
(verb) assign a location to; “The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
site (plural sites)
(obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
Etymology 2
Noun
site (plural sites)
The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
The posture or position of a thing.
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
A website.
(category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
A part of the body which has been operated on.
Hyponyms
• building site
• construction site
• camping site
• campsite
• jobsite
• landfill site
Verb
site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)
(architecture) To situate or place a building.
Anagrams
• EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, ties
Source: Wiktionary
Site, n. Etym: [L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p. situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. Position.]
1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer.
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
3. The posture or position of a thing. [R.] The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site. Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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