site
//saɪt//
Forms
- Plural
- sites
- present (v1)
- site
- past (v2)
- sited
- past participle (v3)
- sited
- present participle
- siting
- 3rd person singular
- sites
Definitions
1.The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
- EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site.
2.A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
- The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
- Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
3.The posture or position of a thing.
- Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
4.A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
- The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
1.To situate or place a building or construction project.
- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
- The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
- The old staple of coal is a declining traffic; and what remains tends to be hauled a shorter distance, as new power stations are sited closer to coalfields.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #501
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”).
Doublet of sitio and situs.