situate

  • 11situate — UK [ˈsɪtʃueɪt] / US [ˈsɪtʃuˌeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms situate : present tense I/you/we/they situate he/she/it situates present participle situating past tense situated past participle situated formal 1) to put something, especially a… …

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  • 12situate — 1. verb a) To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle. b) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past… …

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  • 13situate — [16] Situate, originally an adjective, goes back to late Latin situātus ‘placed’, a derivative of Latin situs ‘position’ (from which English gets site [14]). This probably originated as a noun use of situs, the past participle of sinere ‘allow’,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 14situate — verb (T) formal to describe or consider something as being part of something else or connected with something else: situate sth in: Freud situates the origins of these anxieties in the subconscious …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15situate — [16] Situate, originally an adjective, goes back to late Latin situātus ‘placed’, a derivative of Latin situs ‘position’ (from which English gets site [14]). This probably originated as a noun use of situs, the past participle of sinere ‘allow’,… …

    Word origins

  • 16situate — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin situatus, from Latin situs Date: 15th century having a site ; located II. transitive verb ( ated; ating) Date: circa 1532 to place in a site, situation, context, or category ; loca …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 17situate — v. /sich ooh ayt /; adj. /sich ooh it, ayt /, v., situated, situating, adj. v.t. 1. to put in or on a particular site or place; locate. adj. 2. Archaic. located; placed; situated. [1515 25; < LL situatus situated, equiv. to L situ , s. of situs&#8230; …

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  • 18situate — Synonyms and related words: allocate, assign, collocate, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix, get a fix, home in on, install, localize, locate, navigate, pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put, put in place, set, spot, triangulate, zero in on …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19situate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. place, locate; set, station, put; lie, be situated. See location. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. locate, take up residence, establish; see dwell , reside , settle 7 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. locate …

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  • 20situate — sit|u|ate [ sıtʃu,eıt ] verb transitive FORMAL 1. ) to put something, especially a building, in a particular place 2. ) to describe or discuss something in relation to the things it is connected to …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English