locate

verb

1. 1

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

   The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.

   The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.

2. 2

   To find out where something is located.

   I really can't locate the sever files.

   In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.

   The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

3. 3

   To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

   The council must locate the new hospital.

   to locate a mining claim

   to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant

   1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

4. 4

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

Forms

past tense

located

past participle

located

present participle

locating

third person singular

locates