locates
USLOH-kayts/ˈloʊˌkeɪts/UKloh-KAYTS/lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of locate.
The rescue team's sonar locates submerged wreckage along the seabed.
A good surveyor locates the property boundaries before any building begins.
Note
One spelling carries every meaning of the verb, so the object usually decides which is meant. A team that locates wreckage has found something it was looking for. A firm that locates its offices downtown has placed them there. Without an object the verb turns colloquial and means settling somewhere to live, as in a family that locates near the coast. In careful writing, settles is the safer word.
locates is a form of locate
locate, verb: To discover the exact place where something or someone is. Full entry
- Spelling
- locate → locates: add -s
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