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to locate

to locate

599 3.0
To put something in a particular place, for example an office or factory
  • verb
  • /loʊˈkeɪt/
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  • Is this a fair and efficient way to locate asylum seekers?
  • centrally located
  • located adjacent to
  • located near a school

So those are the things that, you know, I want to say to locate her in social space.

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Examples

  • All told, Boeing has 50 supplier contracts, with 28 of the suppliers located outside the United States.

    Academic text (2011)
  • After listening to the aria, we locate its place in music history and identify its musical characteristics.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And it's important for you to locate that inside you.

  • So it's a little easier to locate the center between those rows there.

  • So what I would like to do is to locate the position of this axis C.

  • We just need to locate those moments that have most shaped them.

  • Rest, Cortana, make yourself useful and locate the closest restaurant you can find.

  • Students came from four public secondary schools located in Connecticut, South Dakota, and Arizona.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Blackwood Falls is located three hours from any major town in what some people called the Devil's Triangle of Texas.

  • The teacher asked us to locate the capital of each country on the map.

Synonyms

to put
vsto locate
1.0

Move something to a particular place or position

adds the idea of officially assigning or establishing its spot
to place
vsto locate
1.0

To put something in a particular position or job

is about formally assigning or establishing the exact spot
to position
vsto locate
159 2.5

To put something in a particular place carefully

is used for formally assigning the exact spot rather than careful arranging
to situate
vsto locate
61 3.9

Put someone or something in a certain place

focuses on officially assigning a definite spot rather than only context
to site
vsto locate
5 4.2

To put or build something in a particular place

is broader, applying to assigning a spot beyond building uses

Antonyms

1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

Surface Forms

locate infinitive
located past
located past participle
locating present participle
locates third person singular

Morphology

locate = loc + ate

Formed from the Latin combining form 'loc-' (place) plus the verb-forming suffix '-ate'; the root 'loc' is not a standalone English word, so the relation is only partially obvious to learners (more transparent if they know 'location'/'local').

Etymology

The word locate comes from the Latin root locus meaning 'place', and it shares the same root as local and location. So to locate something is to put it in a particular place.