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location
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”).Morphologically locate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /lo??ke???n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
location (plural locations)
- A particular point or place in physical space.
- An act of locating.
- 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:
- (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]
- 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
- (law) A leasing on rent.
- (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)
- (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (a place): place
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- location in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- location at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- colation, coontail
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio(nem), from locatum, from locare (“to rent, hire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?.ka.sj??/
Noun
location f (plural locations)
- renting, rental
- rent
- rented accommodation
- 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:
- L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.
- The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.
- L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.
- 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:
- hire (of a car etc.)
- booking, reservation
Related terms
- loyer
- lieu
- louer
See also
- établissement
Usage notes
- This false friend does not mean location.
Further reading
- “location” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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
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