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.

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To find out where something is located.

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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

(distribut)

(senseid)To divide into portions and dispense.

He distributed the bread amongst his followers.

(senseid)To supply to retail outlets.

The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.

(senseid)To deliver or pass out.

A network of children distributes flyers to every house.

(senseid)To scatter or spread.

I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.

(senseid)To apportion (more or less evenly).

The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.

(senseid)To classify or separate into categories.

The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.

(senseid)(mathematics) To be distributive.

(printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

(printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.

(logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

* Whately

A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.