Verb

(locat)

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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=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.}}

To find out where something is located.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng

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The Bat—they called him the Bat.. 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.

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 (''Note : the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

* (Herbert Spencer)

That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located .

(colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.(intransitive)

Verb

(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:

Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait

* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2

Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.

* Miss Yonge

The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.

To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

* Paley

The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.

* Macaulay

a huge stone to which the cable was attached

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)

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To adhere; to be attached.

* Brougham

The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

Dower will attach .

(Cooley)

To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to .

attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery

* Jane Austen

incapable of attaching a sensible man

* Cowper

God by various ties attaches man to man.

To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .

to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

* Bayard Taylor

To this treasure a curse is attached .

(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(Shakespeare)