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Collocate

Collocate \Col"lo*cate\, a. [L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch.] Set; placed. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

Collocate

Collocate \Col"lo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating.] To set or place; to set; to station.

To marshal and collocate in order his battalions.
--E. Hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
collocate

1510s, from Latin collocatus, past participle of collocare "to arrange, place together, set in a place," from com- "together" (see com-) + locare "to place" (see locate). Meaning "conference, consultation" is mid-14c. Related: collocated; collocating.

Wiktionary
collocate
  1. (context obsolete English) Set; placed. n. (context linguistics English) A component word of a collocation. v

  2. 1 (context linguistics translation studies English) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example ''strong'' collocates with ''tea''. 2 To arrange or occur side by side. (rfex) 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To set or place; to station.

WordNet
collocate
  1. v. have a strong tendency to occur side by side; "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate"

  2. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: lump, chunk]

Usage examples of "collocate".

And they still know worryingly little about the deep history of intelligence in this universe, about the origins of the router network that laces so many dead civilizations into an embrace of death and decay, about the distant galaxy-scale bursts of information processing that lie at measurable red-shift distances, even about the free posthumans who live among them in some senses, collocated in the same light cone as these living fossil relics of old-fashioned humanity.

In the real historical setting the tortures were administered else-where, but the Renaissance theme park collocated them so the tourists would not have to move to another location.

In placing the books on their shelves, I have generally, but not always, collocated distinctly the folios, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo, placing with the last all smaller sizes.

Most of this pile is collocated with a bonded warehouse, but one wing sticks out into a real hole-in-the-wall shipping operation.