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Garrison vs Locate - What's the difference?

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Garrison is a related term of locate.


As a proper noun garrison

is .

As a verb locate is

to place; to set in a particular spot or position.

garrison

Noun

(en noun)
  • A permanent military post.
  • The troops stationed at such a post.
  • (allusive) Occupants.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison , forewarned, should escape. …”}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To assign troops to a military post.
  • To convert into a military fort.
  • locate

    English

    Verb

    (locat)
  • 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.
  • * {{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
  • , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , passage=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.}}
  • *
  • 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)
  • Anagrams

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