Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb locate
4 senses of locate
Sense 1
locate, turn up -- (discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing")
=> find, regain -- (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!")
Sense 2
situate, locate -- (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"; "Locate the boundaries of the property")
=> determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize")
Sense 3
locate, place, site -- (assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles")
=> station, post, send, place -- (assign to a station)
Sense 4
settle, locate -- (take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest")
Antonyms of adj located
1 sense of located
Sense 1
located, placed, set, situated -- (situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank")
INDIRECT (VIA settled) -> unsettled -- (not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle")
Similarity of adj located
1 sense of located
Sense 1
located, placed, set, situated -- (situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank")
=> settled (vs. unsettled) -- (established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization")
