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site

  [sahyt] noun, verb, sit⋅ed, sit⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the position or location of a town, building, etc., esp. as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
2. the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located: the site of ancient Troy.
3. Computers. Web site.
–verb (used with object)
4. to place in or provide with a site; locate.
5. to put in position for operation, as artillery: to site a cannon.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L situs position, arrangement, site (presumably orig. “leaving, setting down”), equiv. to si-, var. s. of sinere to leave, allow to be + -tus suffix of v. action

Synonyms:
2. position, location, place.
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site   (sīt)   
n.  

  1. The place where a structure or group of structures was, is, or is to be located: a good site for the school.

  2. The place or setting of something: a historic site; a job site.

  3. A website.

tr.v.   sit·ed, sit·ing, sites
To situate or locate on a site: sited the power plant by the river.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin situs; see situs.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

site 
"place or position occupied by something," c.1391, from Anglo-Fr. site, from L. situs "place, position," from si-, root of sinere "let, leave alone, permit."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: site
Pronunciation: 'sIt
Function: noun
: the place, scene, or point of something <site of inflammation> site on a chromosome>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

site (sīt)
n.
A place; a location. v. sit·ed, sit·ing, sites
To locate or situate at a site.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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