SITUATE
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)
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:
situate; locate
Context examples:
Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space / 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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Put (something somewhere) firmly
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
posit; situate; deposit; fix
Context examples:
She posited her hand on his shoulder / deposit the suitcase on the bench / 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
