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site

UK/saɪt/ US/ˈsaɪt/ common
noun (3) verb (1)

noun

1.

the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)

  • “a good site for the school”
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2.

physical position in relation to the surroundings

  • “the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides”
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3.

a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

  • “the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers”
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verb

1.

assign a location to

  • “The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles”
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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • bomb site
  • call site
  • caravan site
  • chat site
  • cobweb site
  • common-site picketing
  • coupon site
  • cross-site request forgery

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