| 单词 | situate |
| 释义 | situate (once / 49 pages) v When you situate something, you figure out where it should go or exactly where it is. You might, for example, use a compass to situate the hunting camp you're building on your grandfather's land. Your brother might decide to situate his drums in a far corner of the basement, where his banging is less likely to disturb the household. A land surveyor might use a GPS or satellite data to situate the boundaries of a particular property. In the 1530's, situate literally meant "to give a site to," from the Medieval Latin situare, "to place or locate," with the Latin root word situs, "place or position." WORD FAMILYsituate: situated, situates, situating, situation+/situation: situations USAGE EXAMPLESHairstylists are well situated to notice signs of abuse, said Vi Nelson, spokeswoman for the industry group Cosmetologists Chicago. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Around 29% of India's coal deposits are situated in Jharkand, one of the country's poorest areas and the site of a Maoist insurgency. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) The 45-acre retreat was purchased by the former Soviet Union in 1972 and is situated on the banks of the Corsica River. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey Syn|Hypo|Hyper locate 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 2v put (something somewhere) firmly Syn|Hypo|Hyper deposit, fix, posit bury place in the earth and cover with soil sedimentdeposit as a sediment lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location |
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