Definition: 1. To find the exact position of something. 2. To put or build something in a particular place.
Use 'locate' in a sentence:
1. Atlanta was voted the best city in which to locate a business by more than 400 chief executives.
2. The restaurant is located near the cathedral.
3. Whenever you move to a new area, you should locate the fire alarm pull stations and the two exits nearest your room.
4. Echolocation is pretty self-explanatory; using echoes reflected by sound waves to locate things.
5. Rather than rushing off to locate the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me so I could show her where she could find it.
6. There needs to be strong economic incentives for companies to locate here.
7. But now they are beginning to locate places where life could form.
8. Fontbonne is a liberal arts college, located in a residential suburb of St. Louis.
9. Businesses can locate based on other considerations, such as the availability of labour, while worrying less about the cost of delivering their output.
10. We've simply been unable to locate him.
11. Which means if you lose it you can locate it online.
12. Much of the industry was located alongside rivers.
13. A boutique and beauty salon are conveniently located within the grounds.
14. Archaeologists also may locate buried remains by using such technologies as ground radar, magnetic-field recording, and metal detectors.
15. There have been many attempts, both light-hearted and serious, to locate the Loch Ness Monster.
16. Sometimes we were tempted to locate the morality of an act in the consequences and in the state of the world that it brought about.
17. The mechanic located the fault immediately.
18. Rescue teams are using thermal imaging to locate survivors of the earthquake.
19. But there needs to be strong economic incentives for companies to locate here.
20. Tudor Court represents your opportunity to locate at the heart of the new Birmingham.
21. Aerial surveys locate general areas of interest or larger buried features, such as ancient buildings or fields.
22. They located their headquarters in Swindon.
23. The most popular items are located toward the back of the store.
24. The plug-in uses that location information to find the local weather and to locate local restaurants, printers, and cafeterias for that user.
25. Try to locate exactly where the smells are entering the room.
26. If I could have your address—the best address to send you the property if we manage to locate it?
27. Now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
28. It shouldn't be difficult to locate the reading for any given time.
29. This small country is largely located in the desert.
30. locate Where shall we locate our new office?
31. If I could locate the nest, I might have been able to put it back.
32. If they wanted to eat something sweet, they had to locate a beehive, smoke out the bees and retrieve the honey.
33. The bats are able to avoid other predators, and locate prey—typically insects that fly around at night.
34. The bodies of the three climbers were located at the bottom of a steep gully.
35. I started by asking how many day-care centers were located in the United States.
36. These should be the area of concentration for researchers to locate and protect those regions as a way to sustain coral reefs.
37. The house is located in one of Pimlico's prettiest garden squares.
38. I'll report back the moment I have located him.
39. A bank's local market share tends to be divided equally between the local branch and branches located elsewhere.
40. The scientists want to locate the position of the gene on a chromosome.
41. Locate objects of interest in this file, and copy the objects.
42. Rescue planes are trying to locate the missing sailors.
43. They located the ship by radar.
44. The offices are conveniently located just a few minutes from the main station.
45. There are tax breaks for businesses that locate in rural areas.
46. Oakley locates housework in the wider context of economic, social and political structures.
47. The framework will automatically locate and execute files for you, without requiring any manual intervention.
48. The hotel is centrally located for all major attractions.
49. This required precise positioning to locate the legs into the stabbing guides of the lifting cradle.
50. Now we need a way to locate this anchor.
51. We will be analysing all the things she has told us in the hope that we can locate the person responsible.
52. International organizations intensified their activities to locate victims and assist with relief efforts.
53. It is located within reach of many important Norman towns, including Bayeux.
54. She decided to head for the dormitory to take another crack at locating Blanche.
