sites

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of site.

   The agency inspected dozens of building sites across the county last month.

   Many historic sites charge a small fee to help fund their upkeep.

   Note

   One spelling covers every kind of place the singular names. That includes building sites and historic sites, the computer installations behind a network service, and websites. Mathematicians use it too, for categories equipped with a Grothendieck topology, so sites in a topology paper are abstract structures rather than locations. The plural is regular throughout, and only context tells which kind is meant.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of site.

   The architect sites each window to capture the morning light.

   The council carefully sites every playground away from busy roads.

   Note

   A verb from building and planning: to site something is to decide where a building or construction project goes. The subject is whoever makes that choice, the object is the structure, and a place phrase usually follows (she sites the school near the river). The same spelling serves as the noun plural, and word order tells them apart: the verb sits between a subject and the thing being placed.

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