Definition of "locate"

locate

/ləʊˈkeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located
1. (transitive) 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.
  1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek
  The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
  2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
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  In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
  2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
  The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
  1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, page 01
3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
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  That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
  1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy
4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

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