Situate

Quick meaning: Situate is a verb meaning (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.

Meaning

(transitive) To place on or into a physical location.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
2. (now rare) Situated.
3. (heraldry) Situated; located.

Example Sentences

Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].

In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.

Word Forms

• situates
• situating
• situated

Synonyms for situate

Depending on context, synonyms include pose, posit, fix, deposit, locate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include locate, posit, fix, deposit, pose, localize.

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