| verb | discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining “Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?” |
| verb | 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” |
| verb | assign a location to “The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles” |
| verb | take up residence and become established “The immigrants settled in the Midwest” |
| location | noun | a determination of the place where something is |
| situation | noun | physical position in relation to the surroundings |
| locater | noun | a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims |
| locator | noun | a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims |
| place | noun | a job in an organization |
| placement | noun | the spatial property of the way in which something is placed |
| site | noun | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) |
| settlement | noun | an area where a group of families live together |
| settler | noun | a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country |