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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Situate \Sit"u*ate\, v. t.
     To place. [R.] --Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Situate \Sit"u*ate\ (?; 135), Situated \Sit"u*a`ted\, a. [LL.
     situatus, from situare to place, fr. L. situs situation,
     site. See {Site}.]
     1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative
        position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town
        situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
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     2. Placed; residing.
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              Pleasure situate in hill and dale.    --Milton.
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     Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are
           well authorized.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  situate
       v 1: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if
            by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight
            enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the
            boundaries of the property" [syn: {locate}]
       2: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on
          his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix
          your eyes on this spot" [syn: {fix}, {posit}, {deposit}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "situate":
     allocate, assign, collocate, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix,
     get a fix, home in on, install, localize, locate, navigate,
     pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put, put in place, set, spot,
     triangulate, zero in on
  
  

















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