SITUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does situate mean? 

• SITUATE (verb)
  The verb SITUATE has 2 senses:

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

2. put (something somewhere) firmly

  Familiarity information: SITUATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SITUATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they situate    ... he / she / it situates   
Past simple: situated   
Past participle: situated   
-ing form: situating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

locate; situate

Context example:

Locate the boundaries of the property

Hypernyms (to "situate" is one way to...):

ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "situate"):

acquire (locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar)

radiolocate (locate by means of radar)

map (locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences)

localise; localize; place (identify the location or place of)

base (situate as a center of operations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

situation (physical position in relation to the surroundings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put (something somewhere) firmly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

deposit; fix; posit; situate

Context example:

fix your eyes on this spot

Hypernyms (to "situate" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "situate"):

bury (place in the earth and cover with soil)

sediment (deposit as a sediment)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

The range is situated among craters, with narrow valleys separating its peaks.

(Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks, NASA)

One particular cluster, called NGC 3201 and situated in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails), has now been studied.

(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)

It was a handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The Spitzer telescope found new clues by observing a hot Jupiter known as HD 80606b, situated 190 light-years from Earth.

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

The fact was, of course, appreciated at King’s Pyland, where the Colonel’s training-stable is situated.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Situated on or along or in the direction of an axis.

(Axial, NCI Thesaurus)

The spatial property of a body; where it is or the way in which it is situated.

(Body Position, NCI Thesaurus)

It was situated against the back of the cottage and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig sty and a clear pool of water.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A small, unpaired gland situated in the sella turcica tissue.

(Murine Pituitary Gland, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Situated or occurring outside the nerve or nerves.

(Extraneural, NCI Thesaurus)