English > situate: 2 senses > verb 1, stative| Meaning | Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonym | locate |
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| Narrower | acquire | locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar |
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| base | Situate as a center of operations |
| map | Locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences |
| place, localize, localise | identify the location or place of |
| radiolocate | Locate by means of radar |
| Broader | determine, find, find out, ascertain | Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment / experiment, survey, or study |
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| Spanish | emplazar, enclavar, localizar, situar, ubicar |
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| Catalan | enclavar, localitzar, situar, ubicar |
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| Nouns | situation | physical position in relation to the surroundings |
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