Locate
[lə(ʊ)'keɪt] or [lo'ket]
Definition
(verb.) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; 'Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?'; 'My search turned up nothing'.
(verb.) assign a location to; 'The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Place, set, establish, fix.[2]. Determine the place of, designate the site of.[3]. Set off (as tracts of land), fix the boundaries of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Place, establish, settle, fix, dispose, lodge
ANT:Displace, disestablish, dislodge, remove
Editor: Lou
Examples
- There were three others to locate. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- For a moment I could neither place my surroundings nor locate the sounds which had aroused me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They define, clarify, and locate the question; they cannot supply its answer. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It took me but a short time to locate the plans of the pits of Helium among the official papers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But as I reached out into the darkness to locate it I found to my horror that it was gone. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- By reconnoitring they were enabled to locate the roads in the vicinity of each army corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For receiving signals I locate in said circuit between the condensing surface and the ground a diaphragm sounder, which is preferably one of my electromotograph telephone receivers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was conducted at once to where Sheridan was located with his troops drawn up in line of battle facing the Confederate army near by. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We had the phenomenon of a full moon located just in the same spot in the heavens at the same hour every night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- With Ephesus, forty miles from here, where was located another of the seven churches, the case was different. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The motor was located in the front part of the locomotive, on its side, with the armature shaft across the frames, or parallel with the driving axles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The friend in whose house he was located witnessed his testament. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The furnace foreman is notified by the operator as to the temperature by means of small colored electric lights, located above the furnace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To avoid the necessity of having to give orders direct, I established my headquarters near his, unless there were reasons for locating them elsewhere. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This wonderful aptitude for infallibly locating an error without an instant's hesitation for mental calculation, has always appealed to me very forcibly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During the day he succeeded in locating this operator, but found that he also was out of a job, and that the best he could do was to loan him one dollar, which he did. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Greater than them all, however, is the modern X-ray apparatus, for locating foreign substances in the body and making visible the bones through the flesh, for which see special chapter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- By the aid of the Roentgen Rays, it locates a bullet in a wounded soldier, and takes a picture of one’s spinal column. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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