The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Locate \Lo"cate\, v. i.
   To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle;
   as, to locate in Seattle. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him
            were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. --B. F.
                                                  Westcott.
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   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.
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            That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
            located.                              --H. Spencer.
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   3. To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the
      source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to
      locate the malfunction in a system.
      [PJC]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: locate,
         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, locate]
    3: assign a location to; "The company located some of their
       agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site]
    4: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants
       settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle, locate]