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locate
  1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
  2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
  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.)
  4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “It was easy for us to locate the exact location of the incident.”
      “If you should locate your house in a small village where there is no railroad communication or public travel, the location would be your ruin.”
      “You'd best locate yourself where you intend to trade.”
localize
  1. (transitive) To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
  2. (software engineering) To adapt a product for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country and modifying currencies, date formats, etc.
  3. To determine where something takes place or is to be found.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The government decided to localize the construction of the new power plant to the designated industrial zone.”
      “The archaeologists were able to localize the artifacts to a specific time period based on their unique characteristics.”
      “To localize genes of interest we have used common markers among foxtail millet, maize, and rice genomes.”
localized
localise
  1. (British spelling, transitive) alternative spelling of localize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Following this principle, Hong Kong was a city that absorbed influences from the West and went on to localise and indigenise foreign cultures.”
      “Why it is so important to localise and identify a given sound can be illustrated by a simple anecdote.”
      “Member States shall not require assurance undertakings to localise their assets in a particular Member State.”
localizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This process localizes tissue destruction to the cancer without damaging surrounding or deep tissues.”
      “However, if the discomfort localizes over the navicular bone, further immobilization or surgical intervention may be indicated.”
      “As a springing forth of the Spirit of God back towards God, worship localizes the Trinitarian well.”
localises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localise
locates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He locates it on the edge of a pool where the river flows into the sea and vice versa in a ceaselessly eddying whirlpool.”
      “It locates the sources of poetic excellence in the profundity of the writer's emotions and the seriousness of his thought.”
      “His metaphor crosses sight and sound and locates an Australian event within the larger regional theatre, a remarkable conceit.”
locateth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate
localised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of localise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Leucon are extremely localised outside the study region whereas Oenanthe flu has declined throughout lowland England due to water pollution.”
      “All offices have ceiling fans to create localised cooling and support the natural cross-venting action.”
      “Unlike staphylococci, which tend to cause localised infections such as abscesses, streptococci are essentially organisms that spread.”
located
  1. simple past tense and past participle of locate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The town of Ames is now located in the center of this crater, also known as an astrobleme.”
      “The borehole of Chuahit, located 3 km SE of Chuahit town revealed the existence of 3 m thick clay layers within the basalt.”
      “Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles.”
localizing
  1. present participle of localize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In Call of Duty, which supports EAX, we found that 7.1 did make an appreciable difference in localizing sounds to the sides and back.”
      “Cutaneous receptors in human skin are capable of localizing sound sources approaching that of the auditory sense.”
      “Search Function of localizing the information that allows users to get specific documents.”
localising
  1. present participle of localise
locating
  1. present participle of locate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Although suffering from poor vision, its sense of hearing and smell is acute and of primary importance in locating food.”
      “There would be clear advantages to locating both services in the one centre, however, if the project were to be approved.”
      “Democrats also had difficulty locating New York regiments in order to distribute ballots and collect the votes.”
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