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Situate vs Shelter - What's the difference?

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Situate is a related term of shelter.


As verbs the difference between situate and shelter

is that situate is to place on or into a physical location most commonly used adjectivally in past participle while shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

As an adjective situate

is situated.

As a noun shelter is

a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

situate

English

Alternative forms

* scituate

Verb

(situat)
  • To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.
    • The statue is situated''' in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area '''situated behind the building.
  • To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
    • The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

    Related terms

    * site * situation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated.
  • * , II.ii.3:
    • Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
  • * Milton
    • Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

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    shelter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
  • An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

    • Derived terms

    * bus shelter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
  • * Dryden
    • Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
  • * Southey
    • You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
  • To take cover.
    • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.