locate

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.Examples: "The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter."; "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."transitive

2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.Examples: "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."; "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her."transitive

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.)Examples: "The council must locate the new hospital"; "to locate a mining claim"; "to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant"Synonyms: sitetransitive

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