locating

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
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • I really can't locate the sever files.
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.

   Synonyms:

   site

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