locate

lo·cate  (lkt, l-kt)

v. lo·cat·ed, lo·cat·ing, lo·cates

v.tr.

1. To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.

2. To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.

3. To place at a certain location; station or situate: locate an agent in Rochester.

v.intr.

To become established; settle.

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[Latin locre, loct-, to place, from locus, place.]

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locata·ble adj.

locater n.

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locate

Verb

[-cating, -cated]

1. to discover the whereabouts of; find

2. to situate or build: located around the corner from the church

3. to become established or settled

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	locate - discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" turn up dig up, excavate, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden" regain, find - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" unearth - bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President" pinpoint, nail - locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
	2.	locate - 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" situate ascertain, determine, find out, find - establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" acquire - locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar radiolocate - locate by means of radar; "The pilot managed to radiolocate the lost aircraft" map - locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences; "map the genes" localise, localize, place - identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection" base - situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab"
	3.	locate - assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" site, place station, post, send, place - assign to a station
	4.	locate - take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" settle colonise, colonize - settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast" resettle - settle in a new place; "The immigrants had to resettle"

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locate

verb 1. find, discover, detect, come across, track down, pinpoint, unearth, pin down, lay your hands on, run to earth or ground

verb 2. place, put, set, position, seat, site, establish, settle, fix, situate

Translations

locate [ləuˈkeɪt] vt (= find) → localizar (= situate); situar, ubicar (LAM)

locate [ləuˈkeɪt] vt (= find) → trouver, repérer (= situate); situer;

to be located in → être situé à or en

locate [ləuˈkeɪt] vt (= find) → ausfindig machen;

to be located in → sich befinden in +dat

locate [ləuˈkeɪt] vt (= find) → trovare (= situate); collocare