locate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin locatus, past participle of locato (“‘to place’”), from locus (“‘place’”)
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- Rhymes: -eɪt
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to locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)
- (transitive) 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 - B. F. Westcott
- (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
- That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located - H. Spencer
- (intransitive) (colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle..
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- Anagrams of acelot
- coleta
[edit] Italian
[edit] Verb
locate
- Second-person plural present tense of locare.
- Second-person plural imperative of locare.
- Feminine plural of locato.
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locāte
- vocative masculine singular of locātus
