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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located);
- Example: "a good site for the school"
[syn: site, land site]

2. physical position in relation to the surroundings;
- Example: "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
[syn: site, situation]

3. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web;
- Example: "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers"
[syn: web site, website, internet site, site]


VERB (1)

1. assign a location to;
- Example: "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
[syn: locate, place, site]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Site \Site\, n. [L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p. situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. Position.] 1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church. [1913 Webster] 3. The posture or position of a thing. [R.] [1913 Webster] The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

site n 1: the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school" [syn: site, land site] 2: physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides" [syn: site, situation] 3: a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers" [syn: web site, website, internet site, site] v 1: assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site]