資料來源 : pyDict
查找…的地點;使…坐落於,位於居住下來,定居
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Locate \Lo"cate\, v. i.
To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
[Colloq.]
Locate \Lo"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Located}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Locating}.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus
place. See {Local}.]
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. --B. F.
Westcott.
2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits
of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining
claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
located. --H. Spencer.
資料來源 : WordNet®
locate
v 1: 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" [syn: {turn
up}]
2: 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" [syn: {situate}]
3: assign a location to; "The company located some of their
agents in Los Angeles" [syn: {place}, {site}]
4: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants
settled in the Midwest" [syn: {settle}]