locate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
   • The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek
   • The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • I really can't locate the sever files.
   • In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
   • The council must locate the new hospital.
   • to locate a mining claim

   Synonyms:

   site

4. (colloquial, intransitive) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.