Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To determine or specify the position or limits of.
- intransitive verb To find by searching, examining, or experimenting.
- intransitive verb To place at a certain location; station or situate.
- intransitive verb To become established; settle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fix in a place; establish in a particular spot or position; place; settle: as, to
locate one's self in a certain town or street. - To fix the place of; determine the situation or limits of: as, to
locate the site of a building; to locate, a tract of public land by surveying it and defining its boundaries; to locate a land-claim; to locate (lay out) the line of a railroad. - To reside; place one's self or be placed; adopt or form a fixed residence.
- In the Meth. Ch., to appoint to a fixed charge or station.
- In the Meth. Ch., to settle as a permanent preacher; cease to be itinerant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
- transitive verb To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
- transitive verb To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of
- transitive verb To discover the location or site of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
- verb transitive 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 (Note: the designation may be purely
descriptive : it need not beprescriptive .) - verb intransitive (
colloquial ) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle..
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey
- verb discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- verb take up residence and become established
- verb assign a location to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I installed it immediately, sent the keyword "locate" via SMS from my laptop with Google Voice, and awaited the first e-mail.
Ars Technica Ars Staff 2011
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If you aren't able to find the phone within the first 10 minutes, you can use a different phone to text the word "locate" to your missing phone to start the process over.
CNET News.com 2011
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Swatter, your argument of why a government entity can pick and choose to whom to recruit to locate is valid but is easily reasoned with.
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Where to locate is best decided by a scouting trip through northern Mexico.
How do we start? 2003
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Where on that spectrum the price should locate is not yet an area of agreement between Alberta and Ontario, but I am confident the two provinces would agree it cannot be at the highest price any distressed buyer abroad might be prepared to pay.
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Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10; Gentoo; Debian Lenny use the command 'locate' - failing that, find / - iname
LinuxQuestions.org 2009
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"anything" the can't locate is a copy of the letter sent to me by CMC back in 69 advising me that I had been promoted. and telling me to call a certain number to arrange for picking up the warrant.
frank joseph visconi 2010
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The reason why the historian gives this explanation is that all the other accounts of John's baptizing locate him at the river Jordan.
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Currently, what this Tata link is under, we are Qualcomm's global partner for hosted location for what's called their BREW locate, which is a part of Qualcomm's efforts to sell its intellectual property and its products on a global basis.
unknown title 2008
zc0000 commented on the word locate
locate , situate , posit , position are transitive verb and cannot be used as intransitive verb
should say : something is located somewhere
March 10, 2010
cdiaz@sanjacinto.k12.ca.us commented on the word locate
I was able to locate your address using my GPS after the storm.
March 20, 2018