locate

To locate is defined as to find something.

(verb)

An example of to locate is to find a missing pet.

See locate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb located, locating

Origin: < L locatus, pp. of locare, to place < locus: see local

intransitive verb

☆ Informal to make one's home or headquarters; settle: to locate in Boston

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See locate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb lo·cat·ed, lo·cat·ing, lo·cates

verb, transitive

To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.
To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.
To place at a certain location; station or situate: locate an agent in Rochester.

verb, intransitive

To become established; settle.

Origin:

Origin: Latin locāre, locāt-, to place

Origin: , from locus, place

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