locate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin locātus, perfect passive participle of locō (“to place”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from locus (“place”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French louer; see also local and lieu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/, /loʊˈkeɪt/
- (Indic) IPA(key): /lɵˈkeʈ/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
- Hyphenation: lo‧cate
Verb
[edit]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.
- 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek:
- The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- (transitive) To find out where something is located.
- I really can't locate the sever files.
- 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
- In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
- (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
- Synonym: site
- The council must locate the new hospital.
- to locate a mining claim
- to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
- 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy
- That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
- (Can we add an example for this sense? (intransitive))
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to place; to set in a particular spot or position
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to learn where something is located
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designate the site or place of
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(intransitive) to place oneself; to take up one's residence — see also settle
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Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]locate
- inflection of locare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]locate f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]locāte
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