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# locate

«locate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To find exactly where something or someone is** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (locate, locates, located, locating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To find exactly where something or someone is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#m1)

2) To put or build something in a certain place: The school is located near the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#m2)

3) (US, mostly) To move to and settle in a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and geography you locate a point on a grid or a map using coordinates. In science you locate the heart or a planet. In safety lessons you locate the fire exits and the nearest first-aid kit. «Be located» means «be», «stand», «lie» somewhere. Formal exam wording: «Locate the point (3, 4)».

### examples

- Locate the point (2, 5) on the grid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x1)
- Can you locate Ireland on the map? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x2)
- The rescuers located the lost hikers by morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x3)
- Our classroom is located on the second floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x4)
- Locate the nearest fire exit before the play starts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x5)
- Use the index to locate the page about frogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x6)
- The phone app helped us locate the lost dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x7)
- The bakery is located next to the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/#x8)

### note

Noun: location. «Located» often just means «is»: «The park is located in town» = «The park is in town». Formal word; in casual talk people say «find». Do not confuse with «allocate» (share out).

### In the corpora

- [London lies at about 51.5 degrees north and 0.1 degrees west, so a pair of numbers can locate any place on Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «locate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.