site
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- noun
- /saɪt/
- Construction crews are currently working at the site where the new office building will stand.
- construction site
- archaeological site
- a site visit
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Watch on YouTubeSignificantly, the Christians had chosen a site for their great church.
- Significantly, the Christians had chosen a site for their great church.
- A lot more has been done with excavating sites in England.
- So that that's sort of like, you know, brownfield site for development.
- And no one knew that this was a site, the ceremonial site.
- So in Syria there's a site called Ain Dara.
- And you can tell that the grave sites were of kids.
Examples
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Significantly, the Christians had chosen a site for their great church.
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Are you aware of the fire at my construction site?
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We got separate landing sites for each team.
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We found it not far from our first site.
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There is tight security around the crash site...
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We could have 1,000 troops on site in just a few days.
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The site you chose is not one we can defend, as the Indigenous are well aware.
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This is our test site on Maui flying across the sky.
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Distance to dive site is 630 feet and increasing.
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Jezero's crater is the site of a dried up lake.
Synonyms
Compounds
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2.4
A piece of land where people plan to make or are making houses and other structures
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An area in Lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center stood before 2001, now a rebuilt complex with memorials
- Formal
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A place in the United States where people dumped dangerous waste and the government must clean it up
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A part of an enzyme or antibody where molecules attach and reactions start
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A place polluted by toxic waste with no person or company responsible for cleaning it
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Etymology
Site comes from the Latin word situs meaning 'place', and it kept the idea of a particular spot of land. So an excavation, a building area, or any marked spot is called a site because it is the chosen 'place' for something.