Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of locating.
- n. A place where something is or could be located; a site.
- n. A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot: filming a Western on location in the Mexican desert.
- n. A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of placing or settling: as, the location of settlers in a new country.
- n. Situation with respect to place; place.
- n. The act of fixing by survey, or otherwise determining, the site or bounds of a piece or tract of land (as under a claim for a specified quantity of public land), laying out the line of a railroad or canal, or the like.
- n. That which is located; a tract of land with boundaries designated or marked out.
- n. In civil law, a leasing on rent.
- n. An intuitive perception of distance and direction.
Wiktionary
- n. A particular point or place in physical space.
- n. An act of locating.
- n. South Africa An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of locating.
- n. Situation; place; locality.
- n. U.S. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
- n. (Civil Law) A leasing on rent.
- n. (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- n. (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a point or extent in space
- n. the act of putting something in a certain place
- n. a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made
- n. a determination of the place where something is
Etymologies
- From Latin locatio ("a placing"), from locare ("to place, put, set, let"), from locus ("a place"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin locātiō, locātiōn-, a placing, from locātus, past participle of locāre, to place; see locate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- Set the location in the code for error processing set @location = 'Create SQLServer Object”
“$query = "SELECT * FROM stag WHERE location = '$location'";”
“For example, knowing that moving to a certain location is better, in and by itself is not enough to initiate an action.”
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“The label location diagram certainly sniffs of this accessory being in the right shape.”
“Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965 tells the story of Detachment A-342's assignment to the title location, a strategically critical position due to its proximity to several roads that intersect near it.”
“Talk about self sufficient, this location is a good place to witness that reality.”
“Paul - as you noted in your first post, rental cars are VERY expensive here and dropping off at another location is almost impossible.”
“The capability of my phone to let slip my location is a big, big advantage to, say, a hypothetical monolithic power structure.”
“I see your location is also at the heart of all that is needed and desired by just walking out your door and within a few short blocks, comida, ambiento and more is on your table.”
“But the location is a great excuse to get whisked away in the Daimler or one of the hotel's antique Jags.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘location’.
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Technology
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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Cataloger words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for location.
gangerh This is where filming will take place. Jul 1, 2008