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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.

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

locata·ble adj.
locater n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.located - situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank"
settled - established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"

located
adjective situated, placed, positioned, sited The restaurant is located near the cathedral.
Translations
located [ləʊˈkeɪtɪd] adj (= situated) → situé(e)
The restaurant is located near the cathedral → Le restaurant est situé près de la cathédrale.
well-located buildings → des immeubles bien situés


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1865, after many hardships and privations, we located the most remarkable gold-bearing quartz vein that our wildest dreams had ever pictured.
As soon as they left the place where the balls and bullets were flying about, their superiors, located in the background, re-formed them and brought them under discipline and under the influence of that discipline led them back to the zone of fire, where under the influence of fear of death they lost their discipline and rushed about according to the chance promptings of the throng.
The mountains underneath which the Nome King's extensive caverns were located lay grouped just north of the Land of Ev, which lay directly across the deadly desert to the east of the Land of Oz.
 
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