| 单词 | locate |
| 释义 | locate (once / 143 pages) v If you wanted to decide where to locate your car wash, you might locate a spot on a map with lots of traffic, a parking lot, and a ready source of water. Locate means to find or place. If your mother can never locate her keys, it means she loses them all of the time and has to look all around the house before going out. If you move to a new place, usually for a job, you relocate. But if you decide to find a job that is located in your town, you call that staying local, which, like locate, derives from the Latin locus meaning "place." WORD FAMILYlocate: dislocate, located, locater, locates, locating, location, locator, relocate+/bilocation: bilocations/dislocate: dislocated, dislocates, dislocating, dislocation/dislocation: dislocations/located: unlocated/locater: locaters/location: bilocation, locations/locator: locators/relocate: relocated, relocates, relocating, relocation/relocation: relocations USAGE EXAMPLESPolice say crews soon after located two woman dead on the riverbank below. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “Right now, Charles Town needs to be looking to differentiate itself from the Maryland casinos including MGM National Harbor, located outside of Washington, D.C.,” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The care station is closely located next to two surgical suites, one for scopic procedures, such as colonoscopies, and another for general surgery. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest? Syn|Hypo|Hyper turn up dig up, excavate, turn up find by digging in the ground unearth bring to light nail, pinpointlocate exactly find, regain come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost 2v 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|Hypo|Hyper situate acquire locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar radiolocatelocate by means of radar maplocate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences localise, localize, placeidentify the location or place of basesituate as a center of operations ascertain, determine, find, find out establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study 3v assign a location to The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles Syn|Hyper place, site place, post, send, station assign to a station 4v take up residence and become established Syn|Hypo settle colonise, colonize settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) resettlesettle in a new place |
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