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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
locate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
centrally
▪ The device is located centrally because the chemical can be distributed more quickly through the brain that way.
close
▪ In addition, three smaller meeting rooms are located close to the hotel's Business Centre.
▪ The town is located close to Manchester's international Ringway Airport.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Second, it reduced perceptions of risk, reinforcing executives' decisions to locate in the area.
▪ Those companies in major cities will have an easier time finding a consultant than those located in less-populated areas.
▪ Transport Development has been located in areas that name the most effective use of bus and rail networks.
▪ It is not unusual for control rooms to be located in another area. perhaps a different floor or building.
▪ First locate the area where you can go rabbiting.
▪ Twelve are located in the Bay Area.
▪ While the industrial sector remained small in real terms, much industrial production continued to be located in rural areas.
▪ One of the more readily accessible sites, Las Fuentes workshop was located in an area of commercial maquila concentration.
center
▪ The three theaters are located in the center of town.
▪ Gasoline, aviation fuel, heating oil, and diesel fuel tank farms are always located near centers of demand.
▪ The stores, usually located in suburban shopping centers, target middle-class consumers with brand-name clothing, accessories and furniture.
centre
▪ The unpredicted change of weather was moving the fog too rapidly anyway for him to be able to locate its centre.
city
▪ The bulk of these jobs were not located in the inner cities - many went to green-field locations and new towns.
▪ In addition, users can reach AlterNet through Sprint or Wiltel PoPs located in over 450 cities.
▪ Citizens can hook up through their own computers, or they can use public terminals located throughout the city.
▪ Nevertheless, older industrial property could be useful for new companies wanting cheap premises and wishing to locate in the cities.
corner
▪ At Mallia, a similarly designed suite was located in the north-west corner of the temple.
▪ Class runs from 9 a. m. to noon in Lincoln Park, located at the corner of Escalante and Pantano roads.
▪ I only wish my dentist were located in a quiet corner of a Wells Fargo branch.
end
▪ The chain is followed until the desired record is located or the end of the chain is reached.
▪ Denison House was located in the south end, on Tyler Street.
▪ Prior to docking the probe mechanism was located at the end of this tunnel.
facility
▪ Arguments for locating the facility in the Maze Prison are convincing from a security standpoint.
▪ Yet newly formed global corporations in the emerging world are also gradually beginning to locate facilities in the developed world.
hotel
▪ Once again, you will see that we have located our imaginary hotel in a genuine town.
▪ You will see that we have located the hotel in Knutsford, which is a real town.
house
▪ He located Tate's house on the wall map.
▪ The 38 canceled projects are located in 26 House districts represented by Republicans and 12 House districts represented by Democrats.
miles
▪ Columba, a neighbour of the giant Ninian field, is located some 105 miles east of the Shetland Islands.
▪ The city of Custer, located 15 miles west of the park, has several restaurants and grocers.
▪ The Ford-Madza plant, to be located about 120 miles southeast of Bangkok, will produce mostly small pickup trucks.
▪ The Saugus facility is located 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
▪ The meteorologists now located Keoni about 350 miles south-east of us, and were uncertain of the direction the typhoon would take.
▪ Residents of the Lancaster apartment, located 55 miles north of Los Angeles, are two men in their early 20s.
▪ The theme park is located seven miles west of Florence.
position
▪ In addition, card readers and display units can be located at various point-of-sale positions such as bars and restaurants.
▪ Global positioning began in the 1970s as a military technology to help troops, ships and aircraft locate their positions.
▪ To fit the connector locate the appropriate position on the ribbon cable.
record
▪ Secondly, it is never necessary to carry out more than two searches to locate a record.
▪ This is called full indexing and provides a very rapid means of locating any given record.
school
▪ Prestel is located in the Middle School library at present and is used primarily for retrieval and research work.
▪ These programs differ from those that went before them in that they are largely located at the school district or regional level.
side
▪ It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels, and portholes were located along the hull sides.
▪ I looked for and located Matt on the side of the deck that gives a phenomenal vista of P-Town.
▪ Another smaller wood was located on the opposite side of the park.
site
▪ This led to a field study which at least seemed to locate not only the site but the probable outlines of the building.
▪ How does the archaeologist set about locating sites, other than through documentary sources and salvage work?
▪ The teacher who'd invited us down proved very useful in helping us to locate release sites, too.
▪ Cholangiography accurately locates the site of a stricture in the biliary tree and radiological features may suggest the presence of malignant disease.
▪ The empty cans can be left at a number of collection points which are located around the site.
source
▪ In any case, being such great travellers, rabbits soon locate an alternative source of food.
▪ She locates visually the source of sounds.
▪ He began turning his head from side to side as he ran, to locate the source of the unknown danger.
▪ The Soviets today have the capability to intercept and locate the sources of United States communications frequencies.
▪ I turned to locate the source of the voice.
▪ We have located the source of your problem.
town
▪ This luxury hotel is located a little way out of town, past Reid's, on the road to Cãmara de Lobos.
▪ Larger, apparently official or public, structures have also been located within the small towns.
▪ But an emergency medical team from Dagestan gave this reporter a lift to the field hospital located just outside the town.
▪ We then started paddling from an access point called Farm Lake, located near the town of Ely.
■ VERB
help
▪ Fault Finding Here is a fault-finding guide to help locate any problems that might arise when producing boards with the ultra-violet technique.
▪ Pass out the rulers. Help the students locate 1 / 4 inch on them.
▪ Certainly it must help them locate a mate and induce a feeling of social togetherness.
▪ It also would help states locate birth fathers to tell them their parental rights are being terminated.
▪ The balloon's been stolen, and 10 crates of lager are being offered to anyone who helps locate it.
▪ Navy salvage experts used sonar to help locate the area of submerged wreckage.
▪ If you are suffering from a rogue tank then this article may help in locating the problem.
▪ It ought to help you locate our protein in cellular plasma membranes.
try
▪ Now the doctor has to try and locate a suitable place to inject the blood.
▪ The man died instantly and his name was withheld while investigators tried to locate relatives.
▪ For example: In each case, if you succeed in connecting, try to locate your page from whatever links appear.
▪ So my idea is, maybe I try and locate this guy a buyer.
▪ My successor spent several months on the intercontinental telephone lines trying to locate the debtors.
▪ The Colonel peered from side to side trying to locate the heckler.
▪ John thought it might be useful to try to locate them and to warn them off.
▪ He was trying to locate a railroad station where he could leave us to continue on our journey.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If you have difficulty locating a particular book, please ask one of the librarians for assistance.
▪ Investigators searched through the plane's wreckage for several hours before locating the flight recorder.
▪ Whales use low-frequency calls to locate each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Androids have been sent to locate her.
▪ I choose to define this tradition as labourism, and attempt to locate the Labour Party within it.
▪ I try the quarter where I know Meurent was born, where the rue Folie-Mericourt is located.
▪ It may well be argued that any attempt at locating sUch a remote people is itself an idle one.
▪ Nearly 20 percent of that cash went toward constructing a fire substation conveniently located south of the Industrial Park.
▪ The block is located in the Murzuk basin between proven oil discoveries and first drilling is expected in 1993.
▪ The unit immediately locates the nearest station, with a vertical green line traversing a gray screen until locking into a signal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locate

Locate \Lo"cate\, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. [Colloq.]

Locate

Locate \Lo"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Located; p. pr. & vb. n. Locating.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See Local.]

  1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

    The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
    --B. F. Westcott.

  2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.

    That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
    --H. Spencer.

  3. To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
locate

1650s, "to establish oneself in a place, settle," from Latin locatus, past participle of locare "to place, put, set, dispose, arrange," from locus "a place" (see locus). Sense of "mark the limits of a place" (especially a land grant) is attested from 1739 in American English; this developed to "establish (something) in a place" (1807) and "to find out the place of" (1882, American English). Related: Located; locating.

Wiktionary
locate

vb. (context transitive English) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

WordNet
locate
  1. v. discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" [syn: turn up]

  2. determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate]

  3. assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: place, site]

  4. take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle]

Wikipedia
Locate (Unix)

locate is a Unix utility which serves to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by the updatedb command or by a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It operates significantly faster than [[find]], but requires regular updating of the database. This sacrifices overall efficiency (because of the regular interrogation of filesystems even when no user needs information) and absolute accuracy (since the database does not update in real time) for significant speed improvements, particularly on very large filesystems.

locate was first created in 1982. The BSD and GNU Findutils versions derive from the original implementation. Their primary database is world-readable, so the index is built as an unprivileged user.

mlocate (Merging Locate) and the earlier slocate (Secure Locate) use a restricted-access database, only showing filenames accessible to the user.

Locate

Locate may refer to:

  • Locate (finance)
  • Locator software, in computing
  • Locate (Unix), Linux command to find files
Locate (finance)

In finance, a locate is an approval from a broker that needs to be obtained prior to effecting a short sale in any equity security, i.e. to "locate" securities available for borrowing.

The requirement, in the United States, to locate a stock before ' shorting' it has existed for a long time.

Regulation SHO was announced by the SEC in July 2004. The rule includes a uniform "locate" requirement for short sales in all equity securities and a requirement for the firms to document what they have done to locate the securities. Regardless of whether the seller’s short position may be closed out by purchasing securities the same day, firms will need to document that they have borrowed or arranged to borrow the stock, or they have reasonable grounds to believe they can borrow the stock and deliver on delivery date.

Market makers effecting short sales in connection with bona fide market making are exempt from this requirement. In addition broker-dealers can rely on " easy to borrow" lists to satisfy the "reasonable grounds" requirement, provided the information used to generate such lists is less than 24 hours old and the securities included on the list are so readily available that it is unlikely the seller will fail to deliver securities on settlement date, but may not rely on the fact that a security is not on a “hard-to-borrow” list to satisfy the test.

Each short sale must be matched to a corresponding locate. However, it is not necessary to secure a locate in the same broker – if a short sale purchaser can prove a secured locate at any broker that is sufficient to provide validity of a short sales transaction.

Since a locate is not a guarantee that security can be borrowed, there exists a threat there may not actually be actual securities that can be borrowed, resulting in so-called naked short. These can be extremely dangerous to the marketand can unnecessarily bring down prices. Responding to such threat, in July 2008 SEC issued an emergency ruling where locates for certain securities had to be backed up by a guaranteed pre-borrow

Usage examples of "locate".

It was time well spent, for they located a number of vessels in the port, with their names and destinations, and gave him chapter and verse of the hunt for the absconders from Port Arthur, which had apparently been going on for most of the day.

Intracompany mail bins Policy: Intracompany mail bins must not be located in publicly accessible areas.

Sending sensitive information by fax Policy: Before sending Sensitive information by fax to a machine that is located in an area accessible to other personnel, the sender shall transmit a cover page.

The other acorn, although emplaced in a setting attuned to the first through both similarity and contagion, did not germinate as a result of the spell and, in fact, could not be located despite diligent search at the close of the experiment.

If I could locate Adeem and take him out, part of my problem would be solved.

She did highly confidential work helping adoptees locate their birth parents, and Erin had vouched for her.

Maneuvering--The nuclear control room, located in the aft compartment upper level.

The occupiers and their agenda hold pride of place in most accounts, whereas the vanquished country itself is located in the postwar context of a world falling into antagonistic Cold War camps and discussed in terms of a vision of that moment which was distinctly American.

It was located in impoverished East London, where a decade earlier the tragic Tussy Marx had spent her happiest moments agitating among low-paid Jewish immigrants and found herself unexpectedly drawn to the racial heritage that her father so despised.

By the light of the remaining half, he and Alec located the small tack room and began pulling down saddles and gear.

Clinging to the back of his saddle, Alec looked across the bay and located the shining columns of Astellus and Sakor, his first landmarks in Skala.

The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.

They located two roads, neither passable by now, one track leading to a shallow pit where many tons of apatite had been removed.

Beltsville, Maryland, was able to locate quickly a large apiary outside Baltimore where American foulbrood had broken out.

Church of the Apocrypha to locate this Brother Titus and find out if he is coincidence or part of it somehow.