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locate

verb
/lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/UK/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/US/lɵˈkeʈ/

Etymology

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.

  1. borrowed from locātus

Definitions

  1. To place

    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.
    • 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.

  2. To find out where something is located.

    • I really can't locate the sever files.
    • 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.
    • 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.

  3. To designate the site or place of

    To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

    • The council must locate the new hospital.
    • to locate a mining claim
    • to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To place oneself

      To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

The neighborhood

Derived

bilocate, co-locate, delocate, dislocate, echolocate, electrolocate, electrolocating, geolocate, immunolocate, interlocate, locatable, locateable, locatee, locater, mislocate, phonolocate, prelocate, prelocated, relocate, translocate, unlocated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at locate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at locate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at locate

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA