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Locate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.

v. To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.

v. To place at a certain location; station or situate: locate an agent in Rochester.

verb-intransitive. To become established; settle.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

v. 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 (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

v. (colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle..

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

v. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of

v. To discover the location or site of.

verb-intransitive. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To fix in a place; establish in a particular spot or position; place; settle: as, to locate one's self in a certain town or street.

To fix the place of; determine the situation or limits of: as, to locate the site of a building; to locate, a tract of public land by surveying it and defining its boundaries; to locate a land-claim; to locate (lay out) the line of a railroad.

To reside; place one's self or be placed; adopt or form a fixed residence.

In the Meth. Ch., to appoint to a fixed charge or station.

In the Meth. Ch., to settle as a permanent preacher; cease to be itinerant.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey

v. discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

v. take up residence and become established

v. assign a location to

Word Usage

"If you aren't able to find the phone within the first 10 minutes, you can use a different phone to text the word "locate" to your missing phone to start the process over."

Verb Form

located locates locating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

post send station place

Hyponym

colonize resettle colonise

Form

located locating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

place settle