Synonyms for locate
ˈloʊ keɪt, loʊˈkeɪtlo·cate

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1. locate

   Synonyms:
   place, establish, settle, fix, dispose, lodge

   Antonyms:
   displace, disestablish, dislodge, remove

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1. locate, turn upverb

   discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

   "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"

   Synonyms:
   turn out, turn up, settle, prove, site, fold up, dig up, fold, surface, excavate, situate, come out, come on, show up, place

2. situate, locateverb

   determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey

   "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"

   Synonyms:
   turn up, settle, site, posit, situate, deposit, fix, place

3. locate, place, siteverb

   assign a location to

   "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"

   Synonyms:
   put, aim, come out, order, range, set, pose, place, settle, grade, lay, invest, localize, send, site, rank, rate, direct, station, identify, position, turn up, come in, target, situate, post, point, commit, localise

4. settle, locateverb

   take up residence and become established

   "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"

   Synonyms:
   conciliate, square off, square up, adjudicate, ensconce, go down, get back, settle, place, go under, situate, take root, determine, site, subside, finalize, resolve, sink, root, finalise, descend, nail down, turn up, settle down, steady down, make up, fall, patch up, reconcile, decide

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1. • Determine
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1. locateverb

   Synonyms:
   place, set, establish, fix

2. locateverb

   Synonyms:
   determine the place of, designate the site of

3. locateverb

   Synonyms:
   set off (as tracts of land), fix the boundaries of

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1. List of paraphrases for "locate":

   localize, find, locating, trace, iocate, localise, identify, situate, browse, search, pinpoint, finding, localization, track

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How to use locate in a sentence?

1. Chuck Grassley:

   And worse, the administration cannot locate some evacuees with problematic records who were released into the United States before their background checks were completed.

2. Reginald Haupt , Jr.:

   They would probably locate him where no one would ever suspect, and you don't go around digging up a golf course.

3. Barbara Hall:

   LEONARD I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious. CHRIS I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered.

4. Lauderdale County:

   The tips that we're getting, we're following up on as aggressively as we can. Some of them do look promising, but it takes a time to follow through on those things, we're hoping that one of them will pan out for us, and we'll be able to locate them.

5. Scott Stringer:

   If auditors can’t locate an average of 180 computers per DOE location, this may be just the tip of the iceberg.