different between locate vs locator

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

locate +? -or

Noun

locator (plural locators)

1. One who, or that which, locates.

   I found the opening times for my local branch using the Web site's store locator.

2. (US) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
3. (travel industry) The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.

Derived terms

• locator map
• locator outer marker
• Uniform Resource Locator

Anagrams

• carotol, cool art, crotalo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lo?ka?.tor/, [????kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lo?ka.tor/, [l??k??t??r]

Noun

loc?tor m (genitive loc?t?ris); third declension

1. letter, lessor (person who lets or hires)
2. contractor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

loc?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of loc?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of loc?

References

• locator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• locator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• locator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette