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Located   /lˈoʊkˌeɪtəd/  /lˈoʊkˌeɪd/   Listen
Located

adjective
1.
Situated in a particular spot or position.  Synonyms: placed, set, situated.  "Strategically placed artillery" , "A house set on a hilltop" , "Nicely situated on a quiet riverbank"



Locate

verb
(past & past part. located; pres. part. locating)
1.
Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.  Synonym: turn up.  "My search turned up nothing"
2.
Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey.  Synonym: situate.  "Locate the boundaries of the property"
3.
Assign a location to.  Synonyms: place, site.
4.
Take up residence and become established.  Synonym: settle.



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"Located" Quotes from Famous Books



... road had acquired as an investment some thousands of acres of land located in the outskirts of Auburndale, on the line of their road. The land was bought cheap, and there had been some talk of laying part of it out as a public park. This promise had been made at the time in good faith, but it was no condition of the sale. If, afterwards, owing ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein

... Gregory Stollhead. Grim dyspepsia seizing on him at last, "relaxation from his duties" becomes the adequate punishment for all his sins. Solitary he rides, and communing with himself, yawns at every second. Upon chairs beneficently located under the trees towards the north side of the walk are interspersed small knots and coteries in repose. There you might see the Ladies Prymme, still the Ladies Prymme,—Janet and Wilhelmina; Janet ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... bustle be apt to overflow their boundaries and surge against the churchyard and the old gray tower. Nevertheless, a walk of a minute or two brings a person from the center of the market-place to the church-door; and Michael Johnson might very conveniently have located his stall and laid out his literary ware in the corner at the tower's base; better there, indeed, than in the busy center of an agricultural market. But the picturesque arrangement and full impressiveness of ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume I. - Great Britain and Ireland • Various

... finally get out he hastened to the centre of the town where the post-office was located, and asked for Mr. Winslow, who speedily appeared, he having been watching for ...
— Dick the Bank Boy - Or, A Missing Fortune • Frank V. Webster

... the East, so all went well. At last the daring officer was close behind the Turkish lines. He stumbled on the batteries well placed and well hid. Stacks of shells lay to hand in preparation for their attack. In another part he located a searchlight, and down in a little gully he found a forward base for gun and rifle ammunition. This was a sound discovery. He memorised the spot and tried to locate it on the map. Passing on, he came to a field hospital. ...
— The Kangaroo Marines • R. W. Campbell


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