locate
/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The council must locate the new hospital."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *stel-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/
- British English: /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/