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locate
[loh-keyt, loh-keyt]
verb (used with object)
to identify or discover the place or location of.
to locate the bullet wound.
to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle.
to locate our European office in Paris.
to assign or ascribe a particular location to (something), as by knowledge or opinion.
Some scholars locate the Garden of Eden in Babylonia.
to survey and enter a claim to a tract of land; take possession of land.
verb (used without object)
to establish one's business or residence in a place; settle.
locate
/ ləʊˈkeɪt /
verb
(tr) to discover the position, situation, or whereabouts of; find
(tr; often passive) to situate or place
located on the edge of the city
(intr) to become established or settled
Other Word Forms
- locatable adjective
- locater noun
- interlocate verb (used with object)
- prelocate verb
- self-locating adjective
- unlocated adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
At Federal Prison Camp Bryan, located about 90 miles northwest of downtown Houston, guards usually don’t carry weapons.
“We have not located any survivors,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said Saturday evening, adding that it was “safe to say” the 16 missing people had died.
The deluge of rain and snow in eastern Nepal, where Everest is located, in early October was also because of the westerly disturbance, officials at Nepal's meteorology department said.
Instead, she moved forward in Alexandria, near where her office is located, unconcerned that a potentially less conservative pool of jurors might reject her, people familiar with her thinking said.
It is also strategically located between North America and Russia.
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