locate

[loh-keyt, loh-keyt]

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verb (used with object)

to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.

to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.

to assign or ascribe a particular location to (something), as by knowledge or opinion: Some scholars locate the Garden of Eden in Babylonia.

to survey and enter a claim to a tract of land; take possession of land.

verb (used without object)

to establish one's business or residence in a place; settle.

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Origin:
1645–55, Americanism; < Latin locātus, past participle of locāre to put in a given position, place; see locus, -ate¹

Related forms

lo·cat·a·ble, adjective

in·ter·lo·cate, verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

pre·lo·cate, verb, -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

self-lo·cat·ing, adjective

un·lo·cat·ed, adjective

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locate (ləʊˈkeɪt)

—vb
1.	(tr) to discover the position, situation, or whereabouts of; find
2.	(tr; often passive) to situate or place: located on the edge of the city
3.	(intr) to become established or settled

lo'catable

—*adj*

lo'cater

—n

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locate

1650s, "to establish oneself in a place, settle," from L. locatus, pp. of locare "to place," from locus "a place" (see locus). Sense of "mark the limits of a place" (especially a land grant) is attested from 1739 in Amer.Eng.; this developed to "establish (something) in a

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place" (1807) and "to find out the place of" (1882, Amer.Eng.).

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