locate

1 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" [syn: turn up]

2 determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate]

3 assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: place, site]

4 take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle]

English

Etymology

From locatus, past participle of locare to place, from locus place. See local

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

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 - # 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 - # To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

Translations

Transitive

• French: situer, placer
• Swedish: placera (1)

Translations

Intransitive

• Ido: lok-izar
• French: se poser

Italian

Verb

locate

1. Form of Second-person plural present tense, locare
2. Form of Second-person plural imperative, locare#Italian|locare

Locate, locating, or locator may refer to:

• Location (dab)
• Locate Varesino, an Italian commune
• Locator software, in computing
• GNU locate, in the GNU/Linux computer operating system
• Real Time Locating, in radio frequency identification
• Locate32, open source Windows file search utility
• Locate (finance)

See also

• Find
• Move

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