locate

To find something or discover exactly where it is.

• I cannot locate my keys.
• Police located the missing child near the station.
• Can you locate the source of the noise?

Similar words: find, find out

Common phrases: locate something, locate someone, locate the source

To put something in a particular place.

• The hotel is located near the beach.
• They located the new offices outside the city.
• Where is the nearest bank located?

How to use it: locate something in/near something (They located the factory near the port.); be located in/at something (The office is located in the city centre.)

Similar words: place, situate, position

Common phrases: locate something in something, locate something near something, be located in something, locate something on something

To say where something will be or mark out the area it covers.

• The council must locate the new hospital.
• Surveyors located the boundary of the proposed park.
• The report locates the future bridge upstream from the village.

How to use it: locate something on something (The surveyors located the planned reservoir on the map.)

Similar words: site, define

Common phrases: locate a site, locate something on something, locate something near something