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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.

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.

To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.
To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.
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.

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