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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey;
- Example: "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"
- Example: "Locate the boundaries of the property"
[syn: situate, locate]

2. put (something somewhere) firmly;
- Example: "She posited her hand on his shoulder"
- Example: "deposit the suitcase on the bench"
- Example: "fix your eyes on this spot"
[syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Situate \Sit"u*ate\ (?; 135), Situated \Sit"u*a`ted\, a. [LL. situatus, from situare to place, fr. L. situs situation, site. See Site.] 1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. [1913 Webster] 2. Placed; residing. [1913 Webster] Pleasure situate in hill and dale. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are well authorized. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Situate \Sit"u*ate\, v. t. To place. [R.] --Landor. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

situate v 1: 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, locate] 2: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "situate": allocate, assign, collocate, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix, get a fix, home in on, install, localize, locate, navigate, pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put, put in place, set, spot, triangulate, zero in on