Overview of verb locate

The verb locate has 4 senses

• locate, turn up -- (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")


• situate, 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")


• locate, place, site -- (assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles")


• settle, locate -- (take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest")

Overview of adj located

The adj located has 1 sense

• located, placed, set, situated -- (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")