*locat*

v. t. [ LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow. ] 1. To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To localize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation. ] 1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow. ] (Law) “Allowed.” The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + location. ] Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch. ] Set; placed. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collocated p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating ] To set or place; to set; to station. [ 1913 Webster ]

To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. collocatio. ] 1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called stable collocation. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dislocated p. pr. & vb. n. Dislocating ] [ LL. dislocatus, p. p. of dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus. ] To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dislocatus, p. p. ] Dislocated. Montgomery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a dislocated knee.
Syn. -- disjointed, separated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. dislocation. ] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. e- + locate. ] 1. A removal from the usual place of residence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A placing or coming between; interposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Located p. pr. & vb. n. Locating. ] [ L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See Local. ] 1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position. [ 1913 Webster ]

The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system. [ PJC ]

v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. situated in a particular spot or position; as, valuable centrally located urban land.
Syn. -- placed, set, situated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. situated: often used in combination; as, a well-located business. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the act of putting something in a certain place or location.
Syn. -- location, placement, position, positioning, emplacement, situating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a determination of the location of something.
Syn. -- localization, localisation, location, fix. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. locatio, fr. locare. ] 1. The act or process of locating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Situation; place; locality. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n. The locative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong collocation. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To locate again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A second location. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Roman & Scots Law) Renewal of a lease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. trans- + location. ] removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]