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noun
1.
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially 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.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin situs position, arrangement, site (presumably orig. “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere to leave, allow to be + -tus suffix of v. action
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin situs position, arrangement, site (presumably orig. “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere to leave, allow to be + -tus suffix of v. action
Related forms
in·ter·site, adjective
re·site, verb (used with object), -sit·ed, -sit·ing.
Synonyms
2. position, location, place.
2. position, location, place.
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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."
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site (sīt)
n.
A place; a location. v. sit·ed, sit·ing, sites
To locate or situate at a site.
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| SITES Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service |
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