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site

noun
/saɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

  1. derived from situs
  2. derived from site
  3. inherited from site

Definitions

  1. The place where anything is fixed

    The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

    • the site of a city or of a house

  2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

    • a site for a church
    • The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
    • Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.

  3. The posture or position of a thing.

    • Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service…

      A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.

      • The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
      • The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.

    2. A website.

      • 1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi, [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
      • When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
      • On September 21, white supremacist site The Daily Stormer, domainless after multiple providers dropped it over its coverage of the violent rally in Charlottesville, registered dailystormer.cat.

    3. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.

    4. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.

    5. A part of the body which has been operated on.

    6. To situate or place a building or construction project.

      • The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.

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Derived

antisite, A-site, autosite, bedsite, binsite, birdsite, birthsite, blogsite, bomb site, bombsite, call site, campsite, camsite, caravan site, chat site, cobweb site, common-site picketing, coupon site, cross-site, cross-site request forgery, cross-site scripting, drafting site, dreaming site, dropsite, dumpsite, dynamic site, ecosite, E-site, exosite, fansite, fieldsite, filling site, fill site, fire site, gapsite, geomorphosite, geosite, gravesite, gripesite, gunsite · +73 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at site. 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.

01site02local03location04locating05locate06designate07show08fact09basis10base

A definitional loop anchored at site. 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 site

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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