Site
[saɪt]
Definition
(noun.) physical position in relation to the surroundings; 'the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides'.
(noun.) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); 'a good site for the school'.
Checked by Antoine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
(n.) A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
(n.) The posture or position of a thing.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Place, situation, locality, location, position, seat, station.
Checked by Anita
Definition
n. the place where anything is set down or fixed: situation: a place chosen for any particular purpose: posture.—adj. Sī′ted (Spens.) placed situated.
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Examples
- He purchased a site for his factory near New Haven, at a place called Whitneyville now, then known as East Rock. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Sir James seems determined to do everything you wish, said Celia, as they were driving home from an inspection of the new building-site. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The first settlement was located three years afterward on the present site of Battery Park. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They founded the town of Marseilles on the site of an earlier Ph?nician colony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This new sort of community and state was not built upon a cleared site. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If the camping site is abandoned at the close of the vacation, the pump can be removed and kept over winter for use the following summer in another place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The adult might also become fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Catholic chapels stand upon these sites and protect the little fragments of the ancient walls which remain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The sites, therefore, must have been wisely chosen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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