different between locate vs mislocate
locate
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)
- (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.
- 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek
- (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.
- (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.
- 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy
- (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
- second-person plural present indicative of locare
- second-person plural imperative of locare
- feminine plural of locato
Anagrams
- celato
- colate
- cotale
Latin
Participle
loc?te
- vocative masculine singular of loc?tus
locate From the web:
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- what locate mean
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- what locates survivors at sea
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- what's located on the lower left abdomen
mislocate
English
Etymology
mis- +? locate
Verb
mislocate (third-person singular simple present mislocates, present participle mislocating, simple past and past participle mislocated)
- (transitive) To locate incorrectly.
mislocate From the web:
- what does mislocate means
- what does mislocated
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