different between locate vs ensconce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loc?tus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???ke?t/, /l??ke?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?ke?t/, /lo??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: lo?cate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
   • 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek

     The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. 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.

3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
   • 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy

     That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• co-locate

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Alecto, acetol, coleta

Italian

Verb

locate

1. second-person plural present indicative of locare
2. second-person plural imperative of locare
3. feminine plural of locato

Anagrams

• celato
• colate
• cotale

Latin

Participle

loc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of loc?tus

English

Etymology

From en- +? sconce, “to place in a sconce (“fortification”)”.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?sk?ns/
• (US) enPR: ?n-skäns', IPA^(key): /?n?sk?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns, -?ns

Verb

ensconce (third-person singular simple present ensconces, present participle ensconcing, simple past and past participle ensconced)

1. (transitive) To place in a secure environment.
2. (intransitive) To settle comfortably.

   • […] Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.

Usage notes

Particularly used in form ensconced, as in “she was ensconced in an armchair.”

Synonyms

• (settle comfortably): cuddle up

Translations

Further reading

• ensconce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ensconce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ensconce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary