site

/saɪt/

site noun: the place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.

Noun

site (plural sites)

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- the site of a city or of a house
- A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title...
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- a site for a church
- The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, page 192
The posture or position of a thing.
- And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix...
- There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it...1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words], W....
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 433
- If the site is forced to send a message against its will, […],we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International...
(Internet) A website.
- [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi
- When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 248
A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
A part of the body which has been operated on.

Verb

site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)

To situate or place a building or construction project.
- The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
- A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.1835, Mining Journal

site meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

site in Hindi

site: प्रतिष्ठा pratiṣṭhā

site in Tamil

தளம், அமைவிடம், இடம், பகுதி, மனை, வீட்டு மனை

site in Bengali

স্থান, স্থল

site in Telugu

site, situation, place: తలము talamu

More languagesFewer languages

site in Malayalam: ഇടം, ആസ്ഥാനം, സ്ഥാനം, സ്ഥിതി
site in Kannada: ಅಡಿ aḍi
site in Sanskrit: वास्तु vā́stu, पोत pota
site in Sinhala: භූමිය bhūmiya
site in Arabic: مَوْضِع mawḍiʕ, مَوْقِع mawqiʕ
site in Indonesian: situs, tapak
site in Persian: جایگاه jâygâh, گاه gâh, محل mahall, جا jâ

Examples of site in a sentence

At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, page 74:
The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site.2006, Ernest B Abbott, A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments, American Bar...
Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends...

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Forms of site

Noun
plural	sites
alternative form (obsolete, dated)	scite
Verb
third-person singular present	sites
present participle	siting
past participle	sited
past	sited

Plural of site: sites

Origin of site

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

Phrases with site

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Words that rhyme with site

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Questions about site

What does site mean?: Site means the place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
What is site in Hindi?: Site in Hindi is प्रतिष्ठा (pratiṣṭhā). See Site meaning in Hindi.
How do you use site in a sentence?: At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
What part of speech is site?: Site can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce site?: Site is pronounced /saɪt/.
What is the plural of site?: The plural of site is sites.

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