Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun locating
2 senses of locating
Sense 1
placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement -- (the act of putting something in a certain place)
=> activity -- (any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity")
Sense 2
localization, localisation, location, locating, fix -- (a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target")
=> determination, finding -- (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation; "the determination of molecular structures")
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")