Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the act of putting something in a certain place or location.
- noun a determination of the location of something.
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- verb Present participle of
locate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of putting something in a certain place
- noun a determination of the place where something is
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Examples
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Women's practices of personal naming capture even more plainly the difficulties involved in "locating" a woman's life historically, and the complex ways in which women in Magude have claimed their own mappings of self - and placehood within and against androcentric visions of their past.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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I am interested in locating other old hacienda ruins such as La Cienega del Carmen (near Parras) discussed by Rolly.
Old Hacienda Ruins 2009
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For anyone with any kind of MP3 player, though, doubleTwist can be helpful in locating and grabbing podcasts.
doubleTwist Adds Podcasting To Its Device Syncing Powers | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Crane assisted a recovery team in locating the crash.
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A controlled experiment by entomologists at the University of Florida found that dogs were 98 percent accurate in locating live bedbugs in hotel rooms.
Dog Bites Bug 2009
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I take much greater pleasure in locating the books myself; putting together a hodge-podge little collection of books found one at a time in book stores all over the world.
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The sun came out, and he succeeded in locating the points of the compass, though he knew now that he was lost.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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I wouldn't say one area or another was more receptive, but in locating couples,
>An interview with Laura Carroll, conducted by Carol Dominy. First published in BellaOnline.com. 2010
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I take much greater pleasure in locating the books myself; putting together a hodge-podge little collection of books found one at a time in book stores all over the world.
Winner of the National Book Collecting Contest for Canadians Under Thirty 2009
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A controlled experiment by entomologists at the University of Florida found that dogs were 98 percent accurate in locating live bedbugs in hotel rooms.
Dog Bites Bug 2009
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