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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LO'CATE, v.t. [L. loco,locatus.]
1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
2. To select, survey and settle the bounds of a particular tract of land; or to designate a portion of land by limits; as, to locate a tract of a hundred acres in a particular township.
3. To designate and determine the place of; as, a committee was appointed to locate a church or a court house.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" [syn: locate, turn up]
2: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate, locate]
3: assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site]
4: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle, locate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (located; locating) Etymology: Latin locatus, past participle of locare to place, from locus Date: 1652 intransitive verb to establish oneself or one's business ; settle transitive verb 1. to determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of 2. to set or establish in a particular spot ; station 3. to seek out and determine the location of 4. to find or fix the place of especially in a sequence ; classify • locatable adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. discover the exact place or position of (locate the enemy's camp). 2 tr. establish in a place or in its proper place. 3 tr. state the locality of. 4 tr. (in passive) be situated. 5 intr. (often foll. by in) US take up residence or business (in a place). Derivatives: locatable adj. locator n. Etymology: L locare locat- f. locus place

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Locate Lo"cate, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Locate Lo"cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Located; p. pr. & vb. n. Locating.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See Local.] 1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. --B. F. Westcott. 2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. --H. Spencer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(locates, locating, located) 1. If you locate something or someone, you find out where they are. (FORMAL) The scientists want to locate the position of the gene on a chromosome... We've simply been unable to locate him. = find VERB: V n, V n 2. If you locate something in a particular place, you put it there or build it there. (FORMAL) Atlanta was voted the best city in which to locate a business by more than 400 chief executives... Tudor Court represents your opportunity to locate at the heart of the new Birmingham. VERB: V n prep/adv, V prep/adv 3. If you locate in a particular place, you move there or open a business there. (mainly AM BUSINESS) ...tax breaks for businesses that locate in run-down neighborhoods. VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Place, set, establish, fix, settle. 2. Determine the place of, designate the site of. 3. Set off (as tracts of land), fix the boundaries of. II. v. n. Reside, be placed, place one's self, settle.

Moby Thesaurus

allocate, anchor, assign, base, billet at, bivouac, burrow, camp, chance upon, collocate, colonize, come across, come to anchor, deploy, determine, discover, dispose, domesticate, drop anchor, emplace, ensconce, establish, establish residence, find, find out, fix, get, get a fix, hit, hit upon, hive, home in on, hunt down, inhabit, install, invent, keep house, live at, localize, moor, move, navigate, nest, park, people, perch, pin down, pinpoint, place, populate, position, put in place, rediscover, relocate, reside, roost, run down, run to earth, set up, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, sit down, site, situate, spot, squat, stand, stay at, strike, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence, trace, trace down, track down, triangulate, turn up, unearth, zero in on