locatable









locatable


locate [loh-keyt, loh-keyt] WORD ORIGIN verb (used with object), lo·cat·ed, lo·cat·ing. to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound. to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris. to assign or ascribe a particular location to (something), as by knowledge or opinion: Some scholars locate the Garden of Eden in Babylonia. to survey and enter a claim to a tract of land; take possession of land. verb (used without object), lo·cat·ed, lo·cat·ing. to establish one’s business or residence in a place; settle. Liberaldictionary.com

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  • Origin of locate 1645–55, Americanism; Latin locātus, past participle of locāre to put in a given position, place; see locus, -ate1 Related formslo·cat·a·ble, adjectivein·ter·lo·cate, verb (used with object), in·ter·lo·cat·ed, in·ter·lo·cat·ing.pre·lo·cate, verb, pre·lo·cat·ed, pre·lo·cat·ing.self-lo·cat·ing, adjectiveun·lo·cat·ed, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 British Dictionary definitions for locatable locate verb (tr) to discover the position, situation, or whereabouts of; find (tr; often passive) to situate or placelocated on the edge of the city (intr) to become established or settled Derived Formslocatable, adjectivelocater, noun Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for locatable locate v.

    1650s, “to establish oneself in a place, settle,” from Latin locatus, past participle of locare “to place, put, set, dispose, arrange,” from locus “a place” (see locus). Sense of “mark the limits of a place” (especially a land grant) is attested from 1739 in American English; this developed to “establish (something) in a place” (1807) and “to find out the place of” (1882, American English). Related: Located; locating.

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