locate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   assign a location to

   The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles

2. 2
   verb

   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

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To find out where something is located.

   I really can't locate the sever files.

5. 5
   verb

   To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

   The council must locate the new hospital.

6. 6
   verb

   take up residence and become established

7. 7
   verb

   discover the location of

8. 8
   verb

   To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locātus, perfect passive participle of locō (“to place”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from locus (“place”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French louer; see also local and lieu.