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/lˈoʊkˌeɪtɪŋ/ 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.)

noun

locating n.

The act of putting something in a certain place or location.

Synonyms: location, placement, position, positioning, emplacement, situating.

A determination of the location of something.

Synonyms: localization, localisation, location, fix.

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Etymology of 'Locating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Locating" Quotes from Famous Books

... 1968 Clifford ordered the services to provide advice and legal assistance to servicemen who encountered discrimination in housing. The services were also to coordinate their housing programs with the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Justice, provide assistance in locating nondiscriminatory rental units, and withhold authorization for servicemen to sign leases where discriminatory practices were evident. In a separate action the manpower assistant secretary also ordered that housing referral offices be established on all bases to which 100—as ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... trace of a man named Farquharson, as I was permitted to learn a few days later. Ostensibly, it was Major Stanleigh who was bent on locating this young Englishman—Miss Stanleigh's interest in the quest was guardedly withheld—and the trail had led them a pretty chase around the world until some clue, which I never clearly understood, brought them ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... our newly won ivory under a tree, locating the spot exactly with the aid of Monty's compass, and broke camp, starting sleepless up the mountain. ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... school and college courses, while it is not too much like a textbook to repel the average reader. I am indebted to Professor Catterall of Cornell and to Professor Cross of Yale, and to my brother the Rev. Dryden W. Phelps, for some assistance in locating references. W.L.P., YALE UNIVERSITY, ...

— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and look in. Thus it occurred to me, instead of taking one long vacation, we can break the time into three or four in order to follow the garden seasons and the work they suggest. A bit at the end of May for both planning and locating the spring wild flowers before they have wholly shed their petals, and so on through the season, ending in October by the transplanting of trees and shrubs that we have marked and in setting out the hardy roses, for which we shall have made a garden according ...

— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

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