locate

localizar, encontrar

Encontrar algo o averiguar exactamente dónde está.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: find, find out

Expresiones frecuentes: locate something, locate someone, locate the source

ubicar, situar

Colocar o instalar algo en un lugar determinado.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: 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.)

Sinónimos: place, situate, position

Expresiones frecuentes: locate something in something, locate something near something, be located in something, locate something on something

emplazar, delimitar

Decidir dónde estará algo o marcar los límites de la zona que ocupará.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: locate something on something (The surveyors located the planned reservoir on the map.)

Sinónimos: site, define

Expresiones frecuentes: locate a site, locate something on something, locate something near something