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lo⋅cate

  [loh-keyt, loh-keyt] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
2. to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
3. to assign or ascribe a particular location to (something), as by knowledge or opinion: Some scholars locate the Garden of Eden in Babylonia.
4. to survey and enter a claim to a tract of land; take possession of land.
–verb (used without object)
5. to establish one's business or residence in a place; settle.
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Origin:
1645–55, Americanism; < L locātus, ptp. of locāre to put in a given position, place; see locus, -ate 1

Related forms:
lo⋅cat⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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lo·cate   (lō'kāt', lō-kāt')   
v.   lo·cat·ed, lo·cat·ing, lo·cates

v.   tr.

  1. To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.

  2. To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.

  3. To place at a certain location; station or situate: locate an agent in Rochester.

v.   intr.
To become established; settle.

[Latin locāre, locāt-, to place, from locus, place.]
lo'cat'a·ble adj., lo'cat'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

locate  (v.)
1652, "to establish oneself in a place, settle," from L. locatus, pp. of locare "to place," from locus "a place." 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 place" (1807) and "to find out the place of" (1882, Amer.Eng.). Location "position, place" is from 1597; Hollywood sense of "place outside a film studio where a scene is filmed" is from 1914.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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