locate
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
Other meanings
To find out where something is located.
“I really can't locate the sever files.”
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.”
Synonyms
- turn up
Related words
- prelocated
- unlocated
- bilocate
- delocate
- dislocate
- echolocate
- electrolocate
- geolocate
- immunolocate
- interlocate
- locatable
- locateable
Word history
From Latin "locātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “locate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.