site
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located: the site of ancient Troy.
Computers. website.
to place in or provide with a site; locate.
to put in position for operation, as artillery: to site a cannon.
Origin of site
1Other words for site
Other words from site
- in·ter·site, adjective
- re·site, verb (used with object), re·sit·ed, re·sit·ing.
Words that may be confused with site
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How to use site in a sentence
Many of the leading digital news sites have failed to return any profit, some after more than a decade in operation.
Ezra Klein leaves Vox, the website he founded, for New York Times, in a digital media A-list exodus | Paul Farhi, Sarah Ellison | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostThe private labs would test specimens from nursing homes and community sites on behalf of the state, records show.
Hogan’s first batch of coronavirus tests from South Korea were flawed, never used | Steve Thompson | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostThousands of vaccination locations will need to be identified and created, with many sites having to be accessible to lower-income individuals with transportation challenges.
We can’t rely on just one company to distribute COVID vaccines | jakemeth | November 20, 2020 | FortuneHowever, employees in front-line occupations such as law enforcement and medical care generally remained at their regular work sites.
Nearly 3,500 federal workers to get benefits for contracting the coronavirus at work | Eric Yoder | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostAOL bought Huffington Post in 2011 for $315 million, then Verizon bought AOL in 2015, turning the site into a small piece of a telecom giant.
BuzzFeed buys HuffPost from Verizon in latest new-media deal | Verne Kopytoff | November 19, 2020 | Fortune
The building is sited about 100 feet back from the crowded street.
This little fort was very strongly sited, protected by extra strong wire entanglements and has long been a source of trouble.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonTrenches badly sited, they say, and Turks able to form close by in dead ground.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 | Ian HamiltonThe Germans had fortified this saucer, and garrisoned it with machine-guns, mostly sited so as to fire to a flank.
The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 | Frederick William BewsherIt was necessary to go down to a depth of about twenty feet, and as the well was sited in very soft sand the task can be imagined.
The Seventh Manchesters | S. J. WilsonThese machine-guns were sited so as to fire straight along the trench as soon as any attacking party had leapt into it.
The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 | Frederick William Bewsher
British Dictionary definitions for site
/ (saɪt) /
the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located: a building site; archaeological site
(as modifier): site office
an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed
(tr) to locate, place, or install (something) in a specific place
Origin of site
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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