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How to pronounce locate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms place, site
Type of place, station, send, post
Derivation location


The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles.
Type Words
Synonyms turn up
Type of find, regain
Has types nail, pinpoint, unearth
Verb group excavate, turn up, dig up
Derivation location


Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?.
Type Words
Synonyms situate
Type of find out, find, ascertain, determine
Has types acquire, base, localise, localize, map, place, radiolocate
Derivation locater, location, locator


Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space.
Type Words
Synonyms settle
Has types resettle, colonize, colonise
Derivation location

Examples of locate

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Sheriff's deputies were able to locate the suspect's address and waited for him.
From the democratandchronicle.com
It was a tense 2 minutes as my obstetrician tried to locate my baby's heartbeat.
From the newscientist.com
An adapted version of a fetal scanner is used to locate the tissue to be cooked.
From the economist.com
Then they remotely tracked the hens to locate their nests and monitor nest fate.
From the sciencedaily.com
How can you locate friends from the past whose families were also highly mobile?
From the ocregister.com
Utility companies still were at the scene at 9 p.m. trying to locate the source.
From the freep.com
As we head into December, it is time to try to locate M31, the Andromeda Galaxy.
From the post-gazette.com
Fewer wines are a challenge to locate compared with last week's recommendations.
From the ocregister.com
If you locate a beehive in the wild, please consider contacting local officials.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • 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: 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"
  • Assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
  • Settle: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
  • (locating) placement: the act of putting something in a certain place
  • (locating) localization: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"
  • In finance, a locate refers to an approval from a broker that needs to be obtained prior to effecting a short sale in any equity security, i.e. to "locate" securities available for borrowing.
  • Locate is a Unix utility first created in 1983 used to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by updatedb or a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It is significantly faster than find, but requires the database to be updated regularly.
  • Locating is a process used to determine the location of one position relative to other defined reference positions. Locating is applied for location measuring of mobile objects and is not to be confused with surveying, which is utilized in reference to stationary terrestrial objects. ...