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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
situate
verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be situated
▪ The house is situated on a small hill.
▪ And I figured that it would be more than a racing cert that it was situated in another alleyway.
▪ As the deconstructionists remind us, all human knowledge is situated in particular social constructions.
▪ It was situated in a wide, tree-lined avenue in what she took to be the smarter part of Richmond.
▪ Rechtauk was situated between the river and a small sweet-water lake.
▪ The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square.
▪ The village comprises an excellent mixture of fine period properties and attractive modern houses and is situated amidst delightful countryside.
ideally suited/placed/situated etc
▪ It is ideally situated along a charming stretch of canal, near to the Waterlooplein.
▪ Missing too are some of the ski mountaineering classics which are ideally suited to Nordic touring gear.
▪ Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.
▪ The clearing banks were ideally placed.
▪ The hawthorns are a greatly under-rated family and several are ideally suited for small gardens.
▪ These skills need much greater emphasis in schools, and work-based learning is ideally suited to acquiring them.
▪ This is another species ideally suited to the heated aquarium.
▪ We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tax preparation services generally situate themselves in storefront offices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adorno seems to me to situate the problem, without necessarily being the solution to it.
▪ After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently.
▪ In order to situate those views we must begin with Oakeshott's account of the nature of human conduct.
▪ It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
▪ Localities, locales and human interaction may help us to situate society and social change.
▪ The following comparisons with modern and deconstructionist-postmodern thought serve to situate ecological postmodernism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Situate

Situate \Sit"u*ate\ (?; 135), Situated \Sit"u*a`ted\, a. [LL. situatus, from situare to place, fr. L. situs situation, site. See Site.]

  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.

  2. Placed; residing.

    Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
    --Milton.

    Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are well authorized.

Situate

Situate \Sit"u*ate\, v. t. To place. [R.]
--Landor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
situate

early 15c., "to place in a particular state or condition," from Medieval Latin situatus, past participle of situare "to place, locate," from Latin situs "a place, position" (see site). Related: Situated; situating.

situate

1520s, now obsolete, adjective from Late Latin situatus, past participle of situare (see situate (v.)).

Wiktionary
situate
  1. (context now rare English) situated. v

  2. 1 To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle. 2 To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, et

  3. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.

WordNet
situate
  1. v. 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: locate]

  2. put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: fix, posit, deposit]

Usage examples of "situate".

Leichtenstern cites a case of a mamma on the left shoulder nearly under the insertion of the deltoid, and Klob speaks of an acromial accessory mamma situated on the shoulder over the greatest prominence of the deltoid.

Thus, since the very reality of its Nature is situated in Non-Being, it is in no degree the Actualization of any definite Being.

Nature is situated in Non-Being, it is in no degree the Actualization of any definite Being.

Airthrey Castle, standing in a fine park with a lake, adjoins the town on the south-east, and just beyond it are the old church and burying-ground of Logie, beautifully situated at the foot of a granite spur of the Ochil range.

I acceded rather reluctantly to the proposition, though at that time I was incapable of ascertaining his intention, which was, after conducting me to a remote part of the structure, to deliver me into the hands of three ruffians, who, having covered me with a veil so thick as to exclude every object from my view, placed me upon a mule, and conveyed me, regardless of my cries, through the deepest recesses of the woods, when, having arrived at a small inn, situated at the extremity of the forest, we stopped without alighting for refreslnnent.

He destroyed the Egyptian gods, and, to complete all, he decided to plunder Jupiter Amnion, a famous sanctuary situated near the Oasis of Siwah.

One lab looked like a pet shop given over to aquarists with a couple hundred fish tanks lining the walls and situated on most of the tables, as well.

I found attacking the missel-thrushes are situate at the edge of extensive arable fields.

Upon more mature reflection, however, others will agree with me that, when it is considered that these difficulties are without precedent, and have never been acted upon by any individual situated as I am, it is most proper I should wait and see the developments, and get all the light possible, so that when I do speak authoritatively, I may be as near right as possible.

The churchyard at Ashford, and the stone cross, from whence diverged the several roads to London, Canterbury, and Ashford, situated midway between the two latter places, served, so tradition avouched, as nocturnal theatres for the unhallowed deeds of the Wulfrics, who thither prowled by moonlight, it was said, to batten on the freshly-buried dead, or drain the blood of any living wight who might be rash enough to venture among those solitary spots.

Once he had Jace situated, Bender closed the door and climbed into the front seat next to a startled-looking Kevin.

These raids were carried out with great boldness, and villages situated within a few miles of Berber were attacked.

Though that front guard post was a good vantage point for seeing the terrain clear to the sea on clear days, one could hear very little there of what went on inside and to the rear of the castle, because that topmost sentinel tower was situated directly above the noisy rushing waters of the Blabbermouth River, which kept up an endless, senseless stream of chatter day and night.

Situated as she was, I could not suppose her heart susceptible of harbouring a new affection, and I would have despised myself if I had tried to seduce her by any means in my power.

I was thus painfully situated when I thought I could see a light through the crevices of a small house.