Locate /(?)/

Lo·cate

Locate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Located; p. pr. & vb. n. Locating

  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.
  3. 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.
  1. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. [Colloq.]