Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The place where a structure or group of structures was, is, or is to be located: a good site for the school.
- n. The place or setting of something: a historic site; a job site.
- n. A website.
- v. To situate or locate on a site: sited the power plant by the river.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Sorrow; grief; misery; trouble.
- n. Sinfulness; sin.
- To grieve; mourn.
- n. Position, especially with reference to environment; situation; location.
- n. The ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located.
- n. Posture; attitude; pose.
- n. In fortification, the ground occupied by a work: also called plane of site.
- To select a site for; place; locate.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Sorrow, grief.
- n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
- n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
- n. The posture or position of a thing.
- n. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- n. A website.
- v. architecture To situate or place a building.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
- n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation.
- n. rare The posture or position of a thing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
- n. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
- n. physical position in relation to the surroundings
- v. assign a location to
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs ("position, place, site"), from sinere ("to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin situs; see situs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Jim believes that this site was raided by mesosuchian crocodiles, which would eat the eggs/hatchlings and yearlings known from this site*.”
“I have obviously replaced my actual site with ****** my site*****”
“s biggest atomic site• Safety watchdog closes one plant and takes legal action against site”
The Guardian: HSE acts over lax safety standards at Sellafield nuclear plant
“Sidewiki breaks the expectation of control of one’s own site by allowing people to leave uncontrolled comments/spam ostensibly *on my own site*.”
“Using this search query will limit your results to links about ‘influence’ that were posted by the Topsy account. site: – e.g. ’site: techcrunch. com Topsy’”
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“Using this search query will limit your results to links on the TechCrunch site that are about Topsy. site: – e.g. ’site: eu. techcrunch.com twitter’”
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“Using this search query will limit your results to links on the EU version of the TechCrunch site that include the term ‘twitter’. site: – e.g. ’site: wired. com/gadgets twitter’”
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“The term site refers to a location at which a company has setup operations.”
“The main site is the Piazza dei Priori, the town square anchored by a clock tower where the undead Volturi live, for lack of a better word.”
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“One problem I encountered in my exploration of the site is that there is no obvious link back to the scrapbook portion of the site from the Ohio Memory Project.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘site’.
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
torturous, wreathe, tortuous, wreath, titivate, titillate, stationary, storey, septic, principal, principle, story and 134 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
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ENVI - water protection
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Archaeology
Words for shovelbums!
trowel, mattock, chopper, n-transform, c-transform, taphonomy, processual, post-processual, microarchaeology, site, horizon, battleship curve and 33 more...
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Technology
forum, profile, identify, register, user, community, sign in, text, address, inbox, key, screen and 53 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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Barron's 1100 words you need to know ...
antiquated, asinine, au courant, calumny, commodious, cumbersome, disheveled, divulged, facade, fastidious, fluctuate, grimace and 8 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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PirateIam's Words
this, site, is, the, most, useless, piece, of, crap, ever, created
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Technology
a list of words related to technology
hacker, internet, mputer, b, web, online, password, software, hardware, site, blog, newbie and 1 more...
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Vocab Last Semester Exam
evacuated, relief, ritual, belief, practice, reality, enforce, authority, react, exploiting, exploited, exploits and 25 more...
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kdobson21's Words
dorks, for, is, site, this, purpose, the, what's, i'm confused, do, i, should and 4 more...
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theory talk
deep structure, reinscribes, critical resistance, co-articulation, site
Tweets
Looking for tweets for site.

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