locate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: locate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for locate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
locate v discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" Synonym(s): locate, turn up determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" Synonym(s): situate, locate assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" Synonym(s): locate, place, site take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" Synonym(s): settle, locate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Locate \Lo"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Located}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Locating}.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See {Local}.] 1. 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. --B. F. Westcott. 2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. --H. Spencer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Locate \Lo"cate\, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]