Locate vs Nestle - What's the difference?
locate | nestle |
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
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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)
(colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.(intransitive)
To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
To press oneself against another affectionately.
To lie half-hidden or in shelter.
* Francis Bacon
(archaic, ornithology) To build or sit upon a nest.
* L'Estrange
* William S. Woodbridge
In lang=en terms the difference between locate and nestle
is that locate is 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) while nestle is .As verbs the difference between locate and nestle
is that locate is to place; to set in a particular spot or position while nestle is to settle oneself comfortably and snugly.locate
English
Verb
(locat)- The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
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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.
- That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located .
Anagrams
* (l) ----nestle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The old shop nestled between the newer apartment buildings.
- Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succours came.
- The kingfisher nestles in hollow banks.
- She made no answer, but her fingers nervously nestled the leaves of a book.