situate
to put in or on a particular site or place; locate.
Archaic. located; placed; situated.
Origin of situate
1Other words for situate
Other words from situate
- in·ter·sit·u·ate, verb (used with object), in·ter·sit·u·at·ed, in·ter·sit·u·at·ing.
- re·sit·u·ate, verb (used with object), re·sit·u·at·ed, re·sit·u·at·ing.
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How to use situate in a sentence
Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle situated his sleuth Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street, Victorian London has been the ur-setting for detective stories.
Two historical mystery novels plunge readers into the past while keeping them guessing | Clare McHugh | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostThe Blue Jays are a classic, upwardly mobile franchise — situated in a major media market, coming off a playoff appearance in 2020 and hungry to make the leap from good to great.
The Blue Jays gamble on George Springer, hoping to go from a good team to a great one | Dave Sheinin | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostTime meant situating ourselves as part of a larger web of life.
Humans Have Rights and So Should Nature - Issue 94: Evolving | Grant Wilson | January 6, 2021 | NautilusThey situate the writer at home in a story in which she is usually a voyeur.
Harvard students told a lurid tale of murder. Was it true? | Marin Cogan | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostThe absence of the pay-TV distribution deals would appear to situate the companies’ streamers as separate from, and incremental to, their linear businesses.
‘Burn the boats’: TV networks playing with fire in streaming pivots | Tim Peterson | December 9, 2020 | Digiday
These details situate the scene in time, but also in place, eliding any conflict between the two.
It is a long log and frame building, situate on the south side of the road, with a porch extending along its entire frontage.
The Old Pike | Thomas B. SearightIt was constructed of stone, evidently of some antiquity, and situate in a dull remote street.
The Palace has Gardens delightfully situate by the side of the Elbe.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I | Karl Ludwig von PllnitzFrom the pools we went down the hollow in which they are situate, and followed the course of the aqueduct.
Letters from Palestine | J. D. PaxtonStoke is situate in the county of Stafford, and has a great porcelain manufactory founded by Wedgwood.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835 | Dorothy Duchesse de Dino
British Dictionary definitions for situate
/ (ˈsɪtjʊˌeɪt) /
(tr; often passive) to allot a site to; place; locate
(now used esp in legal contexts) situated; located
Origin of situate
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