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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection" [syn: place, localize, localise]
2: concentrate on a particular place or spot; "The infection has localized in the left eye" [syn: localize, localise, focalize, focalise]
3: restrict something to a particular area [syn: localize, localise]
4: locate; "The film is set in Africa" [syn: set, localize, localise, place]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1792 transitive verb 1. to make local ; orient locally 2. to assign to or keep within a definite locality intransitive verb to accumulate in or be restricted to a specific or limited area <an infection that localizes in the ear> • localizability noun • localizable adjective • localization noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 restrict or assign to a particular place. 2 invest with the characteristics of a particular place. 3 attach to districts; decentralize. Derivatives: localizable adj. localization n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Localize Lo"cal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Localized; p. pr. & vb. n. Localizing.] [Cf. F. localiser. See Local.] To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. --H. Spencer. Wordsworth.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(localizes, localizing, localized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'localise' 1. If you localize something, you identify precisely where it is. Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point. = identify VERB: V n 2. If you localize something, you limit the size of the area that it affects and prevent it from spreading. Few officers thought that a German-Czech war could be localized. = limit VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

allocate, assign, box, box in, box up, circumscribe, collocate, confine, cramp, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix, get a fix, hem, hem in, home in on, install, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, limit, locate, narrow, navigate, pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put in place, qualify, restrict, situate, spot, stint, tighten, triangulate, zero in on