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SITUATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put (something somewhere) firmly

Example:

fix your eyes on this spot

Synonyms:

deposit; fix; posit; situate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

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

bury (place in the earth and cover with soil)

sediment (deposit as a sediment)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

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 "situate" 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 "situate"):

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:

situation (physical position in relation to the surroundings)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Constituting or relating to a tail; situated near the tail.

(Caudal, NCI Thesaurus)

Then I recalled where I was, and how situated.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury – situated 339 million light-years away — has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"No, not all," answered Marianne; "we could not be more unfortunately situated."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The smallest lobe of the right lung, situated above the oblique fissure and below the horizontal fissure.

(Middle Lobe of the Right Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

Of, ocurring in, or situated within the cerebrum.

(Intracerebral, NCI Thesaurus)

The Earth is situated halfway between the middle of the sun's habitable zone and its inner boundary.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He found it situated, however, on a glass mountain, and looking up from the foot he saw the enchanted maiden drive round her castle and then go inside.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You may have found the spaces too small, too dark, or situated too far from work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)