locate

locate
    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}]
    

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.
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            The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him
            were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. --B. F.
                                                  Westcott.
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   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.
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            That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
            located.                              --H. Spencer.
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   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.
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Locate \Lo"cate\, 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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82 Moby Thesaurus words for "locate":
      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