We found 1 definitions of locates from 1 different sources.
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locate - assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" | ||
place, site | ||
station, send, post, place assign to a station | ||
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 | ||
regain, find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
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" | ||
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, find out, determine, find learn or discover with certainty | ||
acquire win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
radiolocate locate by means of radar; "The pilot managed to radiolocate the lost aircraft" | ||
map to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | ||
localise, localize, place restrict something to a particular area | ||
base situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab" | ||
locate - take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" | ||
settle | ||
move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
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" |