locate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.
2. v. To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.
3. v. To place at a certain location; station or situate: locate an agent in Rochester.
4. v. To become established; settle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To fix in a place; establish in a particular spot or position; place; settle: as, to locate one's self in a certain town or street.
2. To fix the place of; determine the situation or limits of: as, to locate the site of a building; to locate, a tract of public land by surveying it and defining its boundaries; to locate a land-claim; to locate (lay out) the line of a railroad.
3. To reside; place one's self or be placed; adopt or form a fixed residence.
4. In the Meth. Ch., to appoint to a fixed charge or station.
5. In the Meth. Ch., to settle as a permanent preacher; cease to be itinerant.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
2. v. transitive To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
3. v. intransitive (colloquial) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle..

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
2. v. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of
3. v. To discover the location or site of.
4. v. colloq. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey
2. v. discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
3. v. take up residence and become established
4. v. assign a location to