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[ verb ] discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
Synonyms Examples "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?" "My search turned up nothing" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)The escheat law cannot be enforced now because it is almost impossible to locate such property , Daniel declared . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Aeschbacher 's work is very_much akin to Schnabel 's , but the sound on his Decca disc is dated , and you will have a hard_time locating a copy of it . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The collector enjoys the contact with rural life ; he hunts folklore for the very `` field and stream '' reasons that many persons hunt game ; and only rarely is he acutely concerned with the meaning of what he has located . (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)Production assistance often takes the form of locating tools or materials which are urgently needed . Under this program , property sales specialists in the Small_Business_Administration regional offices help small business_concerns to locate Federal property for_sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real_property and certain natural_resources , including timber from the national forests . |
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[ verb ] determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey
Synonyms Examples "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space" "Locate the boundaries of the property" Used in print (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)The underlying assumption , of_course , is that only sight and touch enable us , in any precise and fully dependable way , to locate objects in space beyond us , the other senses being decidedly inferior , if_not totally inadequate , in this regard . If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point , it remains for us to consider whether the patient 's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense_of_touch can be explained by his defective visual condition . The authors set_about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient 's ability , tactually , ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space , with his eyes closed ( or turned_away from the object concerned ) . |
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[ verb ] assign a location to
Examples "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" Used in print (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)The pilot lagoon was located as shown in Figure 1 to serve the area just south of the existing housing area . |
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[ verb ] take up residence and become established
Examples "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)In ever greater numbers , factories are locating in the suburbs or in `` industrial_parks '' removed from the city 's political jurisdiction . |
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