site
Americannoun
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sites
plural
verb (used with object)
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sites,
present (3rd person singular)
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sited,
past participle, past
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siting
present participle
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to place in or provide with a site; locate.
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to put in position for operation, as artillery.
to site a cannon.
noun
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the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located
a building site
archaeological site
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( as modifier )
site office
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an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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sitesimple
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sitessimple
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have sitedperfect
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has sitedperfect
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am sitingprogressive
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are sitingprogressive
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is sitingprogressive
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have been sitingperfect progressive
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has been sitingperfect progressive
Past
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sitedsimple
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had sitedperfect
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was sitingprogressive
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were sitingprogressive
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had been sitingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of site
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin situs “position, arrangement, site” (presumably originally, “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere “to leave, allow to be” + -tus suffix of verbal action
Explanation
A site is a location. The leader of a Zombie Army might remind his underlings: “Your web site is just a collection of pages at one address on the Web. Your burial site is where you find more soldiers!” Site can also refer to a specific parcel of land, such as a building site or a burial site. Although a website has no physical location, it does have a virtual one, which is reached the same way a physical location is: by going to an address.
Vocabulary lists containing site
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Example Sentences
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During this formal assessment, teams examined the spacecraft, rocket, launch site, and overall mission status to determine whether preparations could move into their final phase.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Kaliningrad, the site of the mobilization test exercise last month, has come under increased scrutiny recently as Western intelligence officials have warned that it could potentially play a role in Moscow’s military planning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Kate Raphael writes for the LA Local, a nonprofit news site covering Los Angeles communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Tom Allingham, student money expert from the Save the Student personal finance site, regularly advises incoming first years to seek out scholarships and learn more about what their university offers.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
I don’t want to get caught on this site.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
He added that at sites where car production may stop, Volkswagen was exploring other "industrial solutions", pointing to advanced talks with companies from the defence industry over using its factory in Osnabrueck.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Their results showed that nanoscale particles once viewed as imperfections to be eliminated could instead provide useful sites for droplet formation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to engage the public in protecting historic sites, says the ballroom project violates federal law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Northern Health Trust previously recommended that EGS should only be provided at one of its hospital sites and that the service should move to Antrim.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
You can also try simply searching for "heterophony" at YouTube or other sites with large collections of recordings.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
That may already be on the way, via a newly introduced council amendment that would allow bigger data centers to be sited in rural and agricultural areas instead of residential corners—a move the organizers oppose.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The solar plant also is sited next to a soon-to-be-finished 80-megawatt/320-megawatt-hour battery storage bank and Calpine’s existing 750-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating plant, which company officials described as a “trifecta” of energy reliability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
There are no small reactors yet in the U.S., but dozens of companies are trying to get them approved and sited.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
She criticised the surge of high-rise developments "sited in areas that should be the runoff of the city", saying they had brought flooding to districts "that never had flooding before".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
They’d had no food and little sleep in five days and in this condition on the outskirts of a small town they came upon a once grand house sited on a rise above the road.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
According to the Clean Air Task Force, by mid-2024, local governments had authority over renewable energy siting in 37 states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
“We can do whatever we want in the markets,” he said, “but if our plants run into a hostile siting and permitting regime, they will not get built.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
“I have clients siting on the edge of their seat, waiting to find out if it was their jewelry that was recovered,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
But the energy siting council will suspend the deadline anytime someone formally objects to a project’s approval.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
One day I was siting in the hall-way of our cottage busily employed fashioning, from some crimson willow withes, a pretty basket-cradle, when a shadow suddenly shut out the sunlight from me.
From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by M?r J?kai
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