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Webster 1913 Edition
Locate
Lo′cate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Located
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Locating
.] 1.
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. B. F. Westcott.
2.
To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of;
as, to
locate
a public building; to locate
a mining claim; to locate
(the land granted by) a land warrant.That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
located
. H. Spencer.
Lo′cate
,Verb.
I.
To place one’s self; to take up one's residence; to settle;
as, to
. locate
in Seattle[Colloq.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Locate
LO'CATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.2.
To select, survey and settle the bounds of a particular tract of land; or to designate a portion of land by limits; as, to locate a tract of a hundred acres in a particular township.3.
To designate and determine the place of; as, a committee was appointed to locate a church or a court house.Definition 2024
locate
locate
English
Verb
locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)
- (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
- B. F. Westcott
- The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- 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.
- B. F. Westcott
- (transitive) To find out where something is located.
- 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
- 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.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
- 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.
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- (transitive) 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
- to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
- Herbert Spencer
- That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Translations
to place; to set in a particular spot or position
designate the site or place of
(intransitive) to place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle