Location vs. Locate

A particular point or place in physical space.

An act of locating.

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

(legal) A leasing on rent.

A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

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.

The act or process of locating.

Situation; place; locality.

That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

A leasing on rent.

a point or extent in space

the act of putting something in a certain place or location

a determination of the location of something;

Example: ‘he got a good fix on the target’;

a particular place or position

Example: ‘the property is set in a convenient location’;

an actual place or natural setting in which a film or broadcast is made, as distinct from a simulation in a studio

Example: ‘the movie was filmed entirely on location’;

the action of locating someone or something

Example: ‘the location of new housing beyond the existing built-up areas’;

a position or address in computer memory.

an area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.

In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth’s surface or elsewhere. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.

(transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

(transitive) To find out where something is located.

(transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)

Example: ‘The council must locate the new hospital’; ‘to locate a mining claim’; ‘to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant’;

To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

Example: ‘The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.’;

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.

Example: ‘That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.’;

To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system.

To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle.

discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining;

Example: ‘Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?’; ‘My search turned up nothing’;

determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey;

Example: ‘Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space’; ‘Locate the boundaries of the property’;

assign a location to;

Example: ‘The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles’;

take up residence and become established;

Example: ‘The immigrants settled in the Midwest’;

discover the exact place or position of

Example: ‘engineers were working to locate the fault’;

situate in a particular place

Example: ‘these popular apartments are centrally located’;

place within a particular context

Example: ‘they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation’;

establish oneself or one's business in a specified place

Example: ‘his marketing strategy has been to locate in small towns’;