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Word: Locate
Speech Type: Verb
early 16th century: from Latin locat- ‘placed’, from the verb locare, from locus ‘place’. The original sense was as a legal term meaning ‘let out on hire’, later (late 16th century) ‘assign to a particular place’, then (particularly in North American usage) ‘establish in a place’. The sense ‘discover the exact position of’ dates from the late 19th century
lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt
discover the exact place or position of
Short Definition:discover exact place of
Examples:- engineers were working to locate the fault
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