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English Dictionary: Site by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Site
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
site
n
  1. the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
    Synonym(s): site, land site
  2. physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
    Synonym(s): site, situation
  3. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers"
    Synonym(s): web site, website, internet site, site
v
  1. assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
    Synonym(s): locate, place, site
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Site \Site\, n. [L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p.
      situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. {Position}.]
      1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local
            position; as, the site of a city or of a house. --Chaucer.
  
      2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or
            occupation; as, a site for a church.
  
      3. The posture or position of a thing. [R.]
  
                     The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site.
                                                                              --Thomson.
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