situate

situate
    v 1: 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}]
    2: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on
       his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your
       eyes on this spot" [syn: {situate}, {fix}, {posit},
       {deposit}]
    

Situate \Sit"u*ate\, v. t.
   To place. [R.] --Landor.
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Situate \Sit"u*ate\ (?; 135), Situated \Sit"u*a`ted\, a. [LL.
   situatus, from situare to place, fr. L. situs situation,
   site. See {Site}.]
   1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative
      position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town
      situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
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   2. Placed; residing.
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            Pleasure situate in hill and dale.    --Milton.
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   Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are
         well authorized.
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23 Moby Thesaurus words for "situate":
      allocate, assign, collocate, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix,
      get a fix, home in on, install, localize, locate, navigate,
      pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put, put in place, set, spot,
      triangulate, zero in on