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LOCATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take up residence and become established

Example:

The immigrants settled in the Midwest

Synonyms:

locate; settle

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

"Locate" entails doing...:

move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "locate"):

colonise; colonize (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in))

resettle (settle in a new place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

location (a point or extent in space)

location (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

Example:

My search turned up nothing

Synonyms:

locate; turn up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "locate" is one way to...):

find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

Verb group:

dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "locate"):

unearth (bring to light)

nail; pinpoint (locate exactly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

location (a point or extent in space)

location (a determination of the place where something is)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assign a location to

Example:

The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles

Synonyms:

locate; place; site

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "locate" is one way to...):

place; post; send; station (assign to a station)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

location (a point or extent in space)

location (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey

Example:

Locate the boundaries of the property

Synonyms:

locate; situate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "locate" is one way to...):

ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "locate"):

acquire (locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar)

radiolocate (locate by means of radar)

map (locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences)

localise; localize; place (identify the location or place of)

base (situate as a center of operations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

locater (a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims)

location (a point or extent in space)

location (a determination of the place where something is)

locator (a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims)

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 Context examples: 

Human AATF wild-type allele is located within 17q11.2-q12 and is approximately 108 kb in length.

(AATF wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human ABCA2 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 9q34 and is approximately 22 kb in length.

(ABCA2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human ABCA5 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 17q24.3 and is approximately 83 kb in length.

(ABCA5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It is located in the middle portion of the brain stem.

(Abducens Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

Human ABI1 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 10p11.2 and is approximately 114 kb in length.

(ABI1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Of, or relating to, or located in a mesentery.

(Mesenteric, NCI Thesaurus)

A cyst located at the periphery of the meniscus.

(Meniscal Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)

A lymph node located in the mesentery.

(Mesenteric Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

Human MET wild-type allele is located within 7q31 and is approximately 126 kb in length.

(MET wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A spheroid joint located between the heads of the metatarsal bone and the base of the proximal phalanx of the toe.

(Metatarsophalangeal Joint, NCI Thesaurus)