located
LOH-kay-tid/ˈloʊkeɪtɪd/UKloh-KAY-tid/ləʊˈkeɪtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of locate.
Rescuers finally located the stranded hikers after dark.
The company headquarters is located in the heart of the financial district.
Note
Past tense and past participle share this spelling, but they usually draw on different meanings of locate. As a past tense it reports a search that ended in success: rescuers located the hikers. After be it describes position rather than discovery, as in the office is located downtown, from the meaning 'to set in a particular spot.' Colloquially it can also mean settled, with no object: the family located near the coast.
located is a form of locate
locate, verb: To discover the exact place where something or someone is. Full entry
- Spelling
- locate → located: add -d
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