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location|ləʊˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. locātiōn-em, n. of action f. locāre to locate.]
1. Civil and Sc. Law. The action of letting for hire (correlative with conduction): see quot. a 1768. contract of location: a contract by which the use of a chattel is agreed to be given for hire, or by which a person agrees to give his services on the same condition.
1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. §29 If the partie commaunded haue anything for his paine, it is not then properly commaundement, but Location and Conduction. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. Table 86 Location (setting for hyre and profite)..Location and conduction of kirk-lands. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. iii. §6. 40 In buying, selling, borrowing, lending, location, and conduction, and other acts whatsoever belonging to Contractors. 1681Visct. Stair Instit. i. xv. §1 (1693) 129 Location and Conduction is a Contract, whereby Hire is given for the Fruits, Use, or Work of Persons or Things. a1768Erskine Instit. iii. iii. §14 (1773) 450 Location is that contract, in which a hire is agreed upon, for the use of any moveable subject, or for the work or service of persons. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. iv. 136 Part of the great subject, location, or letting and taking to hire. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §60 If we have neither taken the thing from our creditor in location, nor on our own request obtained possession of it from him. 1880[see conduction 7].
2. a. The action of placing; the fact or condition of being placed; settlement in a place.
1623Cockeram, Location, a placing. 1674Grew Anat. Plants, Disc. Mixture iii. (1682) 226 As Mixture is varied with respect to the Bodies Mixed; so likewise in respect of the Mixture it self, which I call the Location of Principles, or the Modes of their Conjunction. 1799J. Winthrop in N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1873) XXVII. 354 The location of the camps and the idea of an harbor are mine. 1837J. D. Lang New S. Wales I. 166 For opening new settlements for the location of additional free settlers. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. x. 404 The Castilian officers, to whom the location of the camp had been intrusted. 1891Month LXXIII. 433 The location and translocation of spirits. 1901Scotsman 13 Mar. 9/6 A possible location of batches of 1000 Boers at Dehra.
b. Appointment to official positions. rare.
a1816Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Introd. View (1830) 7 Remuneration to the intended functionaries..for the time and labour requisite to be expended on their part; before location, in qualifying themselves for rendering their several official services; after location, in the actual rendering of those same services. 1816Ibid., Extr. Const. Code 18 System of official location, or, for shortness, the location system.
3. The fact or condition of occupying a particular place; local position, situation. Also, position in a series or succession.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 32 b/1 When the recurved muscles revert to there accustomede locationes. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. vii. (1611) 29 The middle Points are those that haue their location in or neere to the Center of the escocheon. 1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 1 The head is more tormented with paine then any other part of the body; which is partly caused by the location of the head. 1653Baxter Chr. Concord 17 Our Reasons for the location and order of each part and terme. 1674Grew Anat. Plants, Disc. Mixture iii. (1682) 226 Both the Conjugation, Proportion, and Location of Letters is varied in every Word. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New Eng. etc. (1821) II. 283 East-Hartford resembles East-Windsor in location, soil, agriculture. 1883A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric 173 Definite location in space is necessary for an intelligence having varied experience of a world of objects in space. 1883P. Schaff Hist. Ch. II. xii. lxxxiii. 709 He knows the location of the praetorium.
4. The marking out or surveying of a tract of land (esp. of a ‘claim’) or a settlement; the laying out of a road or the like. U.S.
1718New Jersey Archives (1882) IV. 379 Lands..laid out on Passaiak by name, and Scituate on ye same Passaiak by an actual Survey or location. 1770Washington Lett. Writ. 1889 II. 275 Sandy Creek (one of the places allotted for the location of our grant). 1785T. Pickering in R. King's Life & Corr. (1894) I. 72 To explore the country and make locations. 1795Sullivan Hist. Maine 159 There was no regularity in the locations of the lands. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Location, the act of fixing the boundaries of a mining claim, according to law.
5. concr.
a. (U.S.) A tract of land marked out or surveyed; spec. a mining ‘claim’. Also, in South Africa, the quarters or area set apart for Black South Africans; occas. also used of an area in which Coloureds live.
1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 14 In the map..those parts are more full and correct, excepting the lines of towns and locations. 1798I. Allen Hist. Vermont 14 A few families settled..on locations from and under the Province of Massachusetts. 1809Kendall Trav. III. 173 Above Conway is Bartlett, the last town on the east side of the mountains, the lands above being at present only called locations. 1833G. Greig S. Afr. Almanac & Directory 191 The population consists of a mixture of Bastards and Hottentots, who are divided into about 60 parties, each of which has a district location allotted to it. 1835D'Urban in W. M. Macmillan Bantu, Boer, & Briton (1929) 128 He may be placed in a location in His Majesty's Colony [sc. the Cape]. 1848Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 48 They tell a story of a gang of experienced woodmen sent to a location on this stream, who were thus lost in the wilderness of lakes. 1851J. J. Freeman Tour S. Afr. xv. 361 They are located by the Government, and on these locations they cultivate lands and build their native huts. 1878Aylward Transvaal ii. (1881) 20 They [i.e. the natives] are allowed as much land as they want for their locations. 1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 321 The Grand Dipper is a promising location in the same locality with the Bunker Hill. 1894M. O'Rell J. Bull & Co. 283 A kraal, called a location, where the Kaffirs employed in the town as porters, etc., live in huts. 1926O. Schreiner From Man to Man ii. ix. 316 You..stood looking down at the..little brown huts of the Kaffir Location sleeping at your feet. Ibid., A Kaffir servant might be seen hurrying from the Location to the town. 1945R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 241 The ‘location’ occupied by the half-breed fraternity. 1961T. Matshikiza Chocolates for my Wife v. 45 Several beasts were sacrificed and thousands of location residents partook of the traditional royal roast. 1971Rand Daily Mail 4 Sept. 5/1 Transkeians were against the establishment of locations in their territory.
b. In Australia, a farm or station.
1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 141 Importation succeeding importation until the distance of the locations required a fresh central farm to be instituted. 1863M. Lemon Wait for End xiii. (1866) 162 She was continually the companion of her father in his rides about the location. 1865F. H. Nixon Peter Perfume 101 This ‘location’ of Deniliquin is the best place for spreeing I've ever been in.
attrib.1846J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. vii. 246 A piece of land is obtained by a person who merely performs the location duties, and does nothing to his estate.
c. In the production of motion pictures, an exterior place, away from a film-studio, where a scene is filmed; freq. in phr. on location. Also attrib. orig. U.S.
1914Scribner's Mag. Mar. 276/1 It was his duty..to pick out ‘locations’, as are called the scenes and backgrounds of a moving-picture play. 1918H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made v. 120 If an exterior is chosen for the first scenes it has been selected in advance by the ‘location man’ and the director. Ibid. iv. 148 Now many actors are..in the studio or on location. 1928‘I. Hay’ Poor Gentleman iii. 42 They're converting the whole place into what is called a Location, where they can stage dramas of English country life. 1935Time 8 July 32/3 The fault most likely to creep into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. 1957M. Summerton Sunset Hour iv. 62, I have been working hard... Working out location shots. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 12 Nov. 51/1 On location in Yugoslavia and at Pinewood Studios I talked to four people deeply involved in the filming of Fiddler on the Roof. 1973J. Leasor Host of Extras iii. 41 I'm hiring them out to a film company. Two weeks guaranteed, on location. Corsica.
6. Place of settlement or residence. Chiefly U.S.
1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 57 My theory or system to move the location of the first inhabitants of the earth. 1827Examiner 261/2 [He] changes his character, costume, and location (as the Yankees say). 1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 138 These were students of Schenectady College: would I like to see it? a beautiful location, not half a mile off. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly (1877) 218 They visited Windsor. Mr. Beck said that if he had such a location he should always live there. 1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 221 A..first-class, fattening, plains-country cattle station..having been his ideal location.
7. The action of discovering, or the ability to discover or determine, the position of a person or thing.
1900Geogr. Jrnl. Oct. 382 These birds [sc. penguins] must have a wonderful power of location. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 259 The script is also marked..with notes for quick groove location. Ibid. 276 These help in the exact location of editing points on tape.
Add:[3.] b. spec. in Computing. A position or address in computer memory; also, a unit of memory occupying a given position.
1946J. W. Mauchly in Campbell-Kelly & Williams Moore School Lect. (1985) 455 The question is how many locations or addresses in the internal memory are to be included in the standard instruction? 1948Goldstine & Von Neumann in J. Von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1963) V. 197 An accommodation for a sequence of length n + m , consisting of (n + m)(p+1) consecutive memory locations, is available. 1969P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 15 Location 1001 contains the instruction place mq contents in location 15000; the computer thus stores zeros in location 15000, and..goes to the next instruction in sequence, that is, to location 1002. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. ii. 74 If we are not going to want to reference an instruction, we do not need to give a location address. 1980C. S. French Computer Sci. vi. 23 Once data is stored in a location in main storage it remains there until it is replaced by other data. 1984Which Micro? Dec. 36/3 The Lynx has..graphics chars stored from location FC00. 1992Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Sept. 86/2 An executable file contains a header structure whose fields contain the location of the symbol table, the location of the string table, and the number of symbols. |