locate
verb
[ lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt ]
• discover the exact place or position of.
• "engineers were working to locate the fault"
Similar:
find,
discover,
pinpoint,
detect,
track down,
run to earth,
unearth,
hit on,
come across,
reveal,
bring to light,
sniff out,
smoke out,
search out,
ferret out,
turn up,
uncover,
come up with,
lay one's hands on,
pin down,
light on,
stumble across/on,
chance on,
put one's finger on,
Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin locat- ‘placed’, from the verb locare, from locus ‘place’. The original sense was as a legal term meaning ‘let out on hire’, later (late 16th century) ‘assign to a particular place’, then (particularly in North American usage) ‘establish in a place’. The sense ‘discover the exact position of’ dates from the late 19th century.
