[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.
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2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or
occupation; as, a site for a church.
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3. The posture or position of a thing. [R.]
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The semblance of a lover fixed
In melancholy site. --Thomson.
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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]