Site

/saɪt/ · noun

Meaning

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.

Definitions by Sense

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
3. The posture or position of a thing.
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
5. (Internet) A website.
6. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
8. A part of the body which has been operated on.

Example Sentences

the site of a city or of a house

1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8, A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.

1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England. The Second Edition, with large Additions and Corrections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315, However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....

At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.

He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site.

a site for a church

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Word Forms

• sites
• scite
• siting
• sited

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