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/lˈoʊkˌeɪtəd/ /lˈoʊkˌeɪd/ 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.)

adjective

located adj.

Situated in a particular spot or position; as, valuable centrally located urban land.

Synonyms: placed, set, situated.

Situated: often used in combination; as, a well-located business.

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Etymology of 'Located'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Located" Quotes from Famous Books

... wide in the night, had located us, and with desperate gallantry pressed home the attack again and again. So close did they come that about 1.30 a.m. we rammed one, passing through her like a knife through ...

— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon

... Nemo down gangways located for easy transit, and I arrived amidships. There I found a sort of shaft heading upward between two watertight bulkheads. An iron ladder, clamped to the wall, led to the shaft's upper end. I asked the captain what this ladder ...

— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... small Southern mills located in the cotton raising section, the cotton is delivered by team direct from the gin, without going through the compress. In this way they save the greater part of transportation expense. They also save in the strength of the cotton fiber itself, since ...

— Textiles • William H. Dooley

... ordinarily called sensations, are those mental states in which, instead of regarding a corporeal impression as of this or that kind, or as located here or there, we contemplate it in itself as pleasure or pain: ...

— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer

... couldn't better show his liking for the lobster than by eating him. On the other hand, if he goes there and turns his back on the Candydike he'll miss the most wonderful sight in all creation, and that is the Nesselrode Cataract on the Soda Water river. It is located at the point where the Vanilla glacier comes down from the Cream mountains on the one side, and the famous Marrons orchards line the other bank for a distance of seven miles. It's ...

— Andiron Tales • John Kendrick Bangs

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