different between locator vs location

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

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)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
2. 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.

3. (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 […]

4. (law) A leasing on rent.
5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

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6. (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.

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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)

1. renting, rental
2. rent
3. 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.

4. hire (of a car etc.)
5. 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).