Definition of Locate

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Locate

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.

To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

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Locate Quotations

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.
Richard M. Daley

When trying to locate something, search your mind first.
Craig Bruce

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
Manuel Puig

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
Mahalia Jackson

Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas.
Jo Bonner

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.
Shawn Fanning

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
Dennis Eckersley

Locate Translations

locate in Afrikaans is plaas
locate in Dutch is situeren, leggen, plaatsen
locate in French is localisons, situer, localisez, localisent, placer
locate in German is fixieren, orten, auffinden, lokalisieren
locate in Italian is mettere, localizzare, accertare, mettere
locate in Norwegian is plassere, lokalisere
locate in Portuguese is localize
locate in Spanish is localizar, sentar
locate in Swedish is lokalisera

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