locatelo‧cate /ləʊˈkeɪt $ ˈloʊkeɪt/ ●●○ W3 AWL verb 
Word Origin Examples
The business is located right in the center of town.2[transitive] to find the exact position of something: We couldn’t locate the source of the radio signal.► see thesaurus at find3[transitive] to put or build something in a particular place: Large retail chains are usually only prepared to locate stores in areas of high population density.4[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] American English to come to a place and start a business, company etc therelocate in/at etc We are offering incentives for companies to locate in our city.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINlocate
Verb TableOrigin:
1500-1600 Latin past participle of locare ‘to place’, from locus; ➔ LOCUSVERB TABLE
locate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | locate |
| he, she, it | locates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | located |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have located |
| he, she, it | has located | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had located |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will locate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have located |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am locating |
| he, she, it | is locating | |
| you, we, they | are locating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was locating |
| you, we, they | were locating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been locating |
| he, she, it | has been locating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been locating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be locating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been locating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- 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.
- 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.
THESAURUS► find
Collocations to get or see something that you have been searching for: · Have you found your passport yet?· Police later found the car abandoned in a wood.
► discover to find something that was hidden or that people did not know about before: · A second bomb has been discovered in south London.
► locate formal to find the exact position of something: · The airline are still trying to locate my luggage.· Online maps make it easy to locate almost any place in the world.
► come across something to find something unexpectedly when you are not looking for it: · I came across some old letters from my father in my drawer.
► stumble on/across something to find something unexpectedly, especially something very important: · They may have stumbled across some vital evidence.· Completely by chance we had stumbled on the biggest hit of the year.
► trace to find someone or something that has disappeared, especially by a careful process of collecting information: · She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
► track somebody/something down to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching in different places: · I’ve been trying to track down a book that’s out of print.· The police managed to track down the killer.
► unearth to find something that has been hidden or lost for a long time, by digging or searching for it: · In 1796, a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound.
Longman Language Activatorto find something you need or want► find to find something that you need, such as a job or a place to live: · I really need to find a better job.· It took us half an hour to find somewhere to park.· Jenny found an apartment in Brooklyn.
► locate formal or written to find out where something is - used especially in official or technical contexts: · Investigators searched through the plane's wreckage for several hours before locating the flight recorder.· If you have difficulty locating a particular book, please ask one of the librarians for assistance.
► dig out especially British to find something you have not seen for a long time, or that may not be easy to find, especially in order to give it to someone who has asked for it: dig out something: · It seems like every time Grandma comes over we have to dig out the family photos.· I took the opportunity to dig out a few facts and figures about this remote island.dig something/it/them out: · I have her address somewhere -- I'll dig it out for you when I get time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► centrally
Phrases· 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.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be located in/near etc something
Word family- At Mallia, a similarly designed suite was located in the north-west corner of the temple.
- The bulk of the world's rainforests, 97 percent, are located in 27 developing countries.
- The four metropolitan areas with the highest rents were located in California: San Jose, $ 1, 330.
- The three theaters are located in the center of town.
- When you get an office, you will be located in a business world.
- While the industrial sector remained small in real terms, much industrial production continued to be located in rural areas.
WORD FAMILYnounlocallocationrelocationlocalelocalitylocalizationdislocationrelocationverblocatedislocaterelocatelocalizeadjectivelocallocalizeddislocatedadverblocally
1be located in/near etc something to be in a particular position or place SYN be situated: The business is located right in the center of town.2[transitive] to find the exact position of something: We couldn’t locate the source of the radio signal.► see thesaurus at find3[transitive] to put or build something in a particular place: Large retail chains are usually only prepared to locate stores in areas of high population density.4[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] American English to come to a place and start a business, company etc therelocate in/at etc We are offering incentives for companies to locate in our city.