Verb

(head)

(locate)

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

(head)

(ubicate)

Verb

(ubicat)

To take up residence (in a place); to lodge (somewhere).

* 1934 , L, page 20/1:

I am much intrigued as to whether that word Serendipity was found in some old dictionary or is a reaction to the Anchoret’s ubicating in a hen house at Auriesville.

To locate; to find and specify the location of.

* 2003 , Paul Proulx, “Review of Desano Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 6''” in the ''(International Journal of American Linguistics) LXIX, ? 1, pages 100–102:

[The text] contains a great deal of information in a relatively few pages. The introduction begins by ubicating the Desano people and providing a very brief set of ethnographic comments. They live on the Vaupés river in Colombia

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