locate
verbUK /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/ · US /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin locātus, perfect passive participle of locō (“to place”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from locus (“place”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French louer; see also local and lieu.
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To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
- The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
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To find out where something is located.
- I really can't locate the sever files.
- In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
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- The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
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To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
- The council must locate the new hospital.
- to locate a mining claim
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- to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
- 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
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Colloquial To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
- Derived terms
- bilocate, co-locate, delocate, dislocate, echolocate, electrolocate, electrolocating, geolocate, immunolocate, interlocate, locatable, locateable, locatee, locater, mislocate, phonolocate, prelocate, prelocated, relocate, translocate, unlocated