Meaning of LOCATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'lowkeyt
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- [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?"
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| | Synonyms: | | place, settle, site, situate, turn up |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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