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locate English

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locate Verb

— If you locate something you find it, you learn where it is. I need to locate the nearest gas station. — If you locate something somewhere, you put it there. The city plans to locate the subway stop right across the street.

locate

— verb (= turn up) 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 — verb 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 — verb assign a location to The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles — verb (= settle) take up residence and become established The immigrants settled in the Midwest

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locate English » English

place find situate put position settle set site lay seat spot rank lodge install identify find out uncover turn up trace station set up search reside put down pose plant pinpoint make sure localize localise lay out lay down invest discover diagnoze detect unearth trace out strike stage sit down sight settlement seek seed route raise up put up put in place provoke

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Simple sentences

I became very nervous when I couldn't locate my passport.
X rays are used to locate breaks in bones.
It took us a week to locate their hideaway.
It took one week to locate their hiding place.
Tom couldn't locate the Danube on the map.
I can't locate the source of the problem.
Can you locate this place on the map for me?
Even though eye witnesses saw the HMAS Sydney sink in 1941, it took 60 years to locate the wreck on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
Locate Boston on the map.
We're trying to locate them.
We're trying to locate him.
We're trying to locate her.
Please take a moment to locate the exit closest to you.

Movie subtitles

This should remain as a matter between us and the Lord. The cops have the right to know anything that might help them locate the body of my father.
Then depending on who draws the murderer's card, they need to locate the weapon and get it to the appropriate room?
We can't locate Maureen Moffatt.
We look at the damage, not with anger or self-hate, but locate it.
Locate it.
I won't be hard to locate.
Wish I could help you locate your dame, brother.
I suggest that you locate the weak spots in your organization now.
Better forget the lawyers and locate Al.
I was able to trace those attacks to their source, locate Dracula's hiding place and drive that stake through his heart.
I'm trying to locate the district attorney.
My first concern is to locate the lucky man.
I can't locate them.
Eddie, I've been trying to locate you for hours.
Actually, I can no longer locate his brain output.
Well, I won't be hard to locate.
I'll see if I can locate the trouble.
You've been trying to locate my car for three weeks.
My concern is to locate the lucky man.
He's hunting men now, and I've got to locate him.
I thought Custer sent you to locate Yellow Hand.
Columns have been written about her in every newspaper in the land. Broadcasting stations have tried to locate her over the air.
I can't locate them. Thought you might know where they were.
You locate some fresh money, Nick? Heh-heh.
In summary. Atlantis is a submerged continent a powerful civilization. Geographers do not. know how to locate its location with any certainty.
Wish I could help you locate your dame, brother. But I don't know a thing.
You also refuse to help us locate your parents.
Sorry, miss. We're making a checkup of every room, trying to locate a killer.
Can't locate him. He's out fishing.
I wonder if we could locate Duke Sheldon.
I was supposed to wait five years because they couldn't locate your body.
Well, sir, it took me 17 years to locate that bird, but I did.
We're naturally anxious to locate the necklace, Mr. Marlowe.
Did you locate the punch bowl?

News and current affairs

America's declining competitiveness as an attractive place to locate production and employment.
This required the use of torture to identify and locate the leaders, followed by their capture or assassination.
European firms doing business in North and South America locate their corporate headquarters in Miami, Panama City, and elsewhere, with almost none choosing Puerto Rico.
Those with access to finance appear to be capable of resisting the urge to locate production in poor low-wage parts of the world (China aside).
Where dynamic industrial clusters locate is partly due to luck and accident.
But Mashal's refusal to support Assad has not only forced him to re-locate.
Cheap energy provides a powerful incentive for energy-intensive industries - from steel and glass to chemicals and pharmaceuticals - to locate in the US.
The failure to locate Saddam's WMD's is putting America's grab for Iraqi oil into sharp focus.
It thinks it is essential to locate refineries, industries, and additional energy-generating units in parts of the country that are both suited for such development and in need of it.
Despite immediate attempts by his lawyers to locate him, his whereabouts remained unknown for days.
In answering these questions, it would be helpful to know if the Pakistani intelligence community provided any aid at all to the US effort to locate Bin Laden's hideout.
I felt a prodigious, restless energy that I suspected he could not turn off if he wanted to. Soon after I began to recount my observations, he took me to a map of Vietnam and asked me to locate the areas of destruction.

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