Locate vs. Ubicate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Locate and Ubicate
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Definitions
Locate
Discover the exact place or position of
Engineers were working to locate the fault
Ubicate
To take up residence (in a place); to lodge (somewhere).
Locate
To determine or specify the position or limits of
Locate Albany on the map.
Managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.
Ubicate
To locate; to find and specify the location of.
Locate
To find by searching, examining, or experimenting
Locate the source of error.
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Locate
To place at a certain location; station or situate
Locate an agent in Rochester.
Locate
To become established; settle
New businesses that have located in town.
Locate
(transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
Locate
(transitive) To find out where something is located.
Locate
(transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
The council must locate the new hospital
To locate a mining claim
To locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
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Locate
To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
Locate
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
Locate
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.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
Locate
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.
Locate
To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle.
Locate
Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining;
Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?
My search turned up nothing
Locate
Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey;
Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space
Locate the boundaries of the property
Locate
Assign a location to;
The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles
Locate
Take up residence and become established;
The immigrants settled in the Midwest
