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/lˈoʊkˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Locate v. t. (past & past part. located; pres. part. locating)

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."

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."

To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system.

Locate v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Locate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Locate" Quotes from Famous Books

... tap one with a dynamo, and a coast that's punctuated with ready-made harbors! All we want is men and railroads, and we mean to get them. I figure that if sometime our children—I'm thankful I've got none—move the greatest Empire's center West, they'll leave Montreal and Ottawa rusting, and locate it here between the Rockies and the sea. But I guess I'm talking nonsense, and there's a little in the flask—here's to the New Westminster, and ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... possess this rare quality are frequently ignorant of the source of their power. They simply know they have it, but can not locate or describe it. While it is, like poetry, music, or art, a gift of nature, born in one, it can be cultivated to a ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... induction coil includes a battery and a device for transmitting signals, which may be a revolving circuit-breaker operated continually by a motor of any suitable kind, either electrical or mechanical, and a key normally short-circuiting the circuit-breaker or secondary coil. For receiving signals I locate in said circuit between the condensing surface and the ground a diaphragm sounder, which is preferably one of my electromotograph telephone receivers. The key normally short-circuiting the revolving circuit-breaker, no impulses are produced in the induction coil until ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... I was going to Boston to shock some sober relations of mine, but I've changed my mind. About seven o'clock this evening you'll find me in a restaurant not far from Broadway and Forty-second Street; an hour later you'll locate me in the front row of a Broadway theatre; and—better come ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

... both her hands up and down in his enormous fist, "here's Mrs. Byrd! That's simply great. I've been wondering where I could locate you both. Ought to have nosed you out before now, but my job keeps me busy. I'm with a ...

— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

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