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Locating   /lˈoʊkˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Locate  v. t.  (past & past part. located; pres. part. locating)  
1.
To place; to set in a particular spot or position. "The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter."
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. "That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located."
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.


Locate  v. i.  To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. (Colloq.)


noun
locating  n.  
1.
The act of putting something in a certain place or location.
Synonyms: location, placement, position, positioning, emplacement, situating.
2.
A determination of the location of something.
Synonyms: localization, localisation, location, fix.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Locating" Quotes from Famous Books



... opening the first coffee-house in London belongs to a Mr. Bowman or to a Pasqua Rosee cannot be decided. But all authorities are as one in locating that establishment in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, and that the date was 1652. The weight of evidence seems to be in favour of Rosee, who was servant to a Turkey merchant named Edwards. Having acquired the coffee-drinking ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley
... lovers when such surveillance was possible. Peppino and Beppo, too, were comparatively useless, though by careful and well-directed inquiries they had ascertained that Luigi Vampa and his band had changed their quarters from the old rendezvous, locating in a fastness that could not be approached without great difficulty and danger. None of the brigands now visited Rome and even Vampa himself seemed distrustful of the future. According to the intelligence gathered by Peppino and Beppo ...
— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg
... us with his address by return of post we shall be greatly obliged; but, if you are unable to do so, kindly cause immediate inquiries to be instituted with a view to locating him, ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... courts are nothing, you can hire a lawyer to take any side of any case, but you can't hire one to go up against this!" He patted a lump that bulged at his hip and shook a clenched fist in the air. "No, sir! No law for me! Don't you ever think that I'll stand for re-locating that claim. That would be just the chance that these law-sharps are looking for, to start a contest and tie up the mine. No, leave it to me. I'll be my own law and, believe me, I'll never be jumped. There are some people ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... life was a greatly increased power of turning the head from side to side—a mobility very important in locating sounds and in exploring with the eyes. Furthermore, there came about a flattening of the chest and of the back, and the movements of the midriff (or diaphragm) came to count for more in respiration than the movements of the ribs. The sense of touch came to be of more ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson


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