Definition for "Site"

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).
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Site - (Verb)

phonetic : /sīt/ http://www.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/site.mp3
3rd person singular present : sites
1. Fix or build (something) in a particular place
  • the rectory is sited behind the church
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place, site (assign a location to) "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
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architecture To situate or place a building.
  • The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
  • A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
  • For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
  • It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
  • Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
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Site - (Noun)

phonetic : /sīt/ http://www.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/site.mp3
plural : sites
1. An area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed
  • the proposed site of a hydroelectric dam
2. A place where a particular event or activity is occurring or has occurred
  • the site of the Battle of Antietam
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land site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)) "a good site for the school"
situation (physical position in relation to the surroundings) "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
internet site, site (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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obsolete Sorrow, grief.
  • Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow & site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.
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The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
  • A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
  • However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
  • At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site.
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A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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The posture or position of a thing.
  • And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
  • There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
  • Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
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A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
  • 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...
  • If the site is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.
  • The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
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A website.
  • Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site.
  • Voice of the Shuttle: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
  • When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
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Site - (General)

3. locate: assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
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4. the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
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5. physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
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6. web site: 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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7. SITE Town ( سائٹ ٹاؤن ) is a town in western part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan and is named after the Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate (SITE), which forms the heart of the town. ...
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8. In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a Grothendieck topology is a structure on a category C which makes the objects of C act like the open sets of a topological space. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology is called a site.
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9. SITA (Société Industrielle des Transports Automobiles) is the main brand representing Suez Environnement's waste subsidiaries in Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific zone and Australia.
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10. Ribosomes are the components of cells that make proteins from all amino acids. One of the central tenets of biology, often referred to as the "central dogma," is that DNA is used to make RNA, which, in turn, is used to make protein. ...
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11. The Site, hosted by Soledad O'Brien, was an hour-long TV program devoted to the Internet revolution. It debuted in July 1996 with MSNBC's launch and aired Monday through Saturday, reaching 35 million homes. ...
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12. Sorrow, grief; To situate or place a building
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13. (SITES) We base the star rating on three criteria: content, organization, and navigation.
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14. (Sites) In Active Directory, sites are formed through the grouping of multiple subnets. Sites are typically defined as locations in which network access is highly reliable, fast and not very expensive.
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15. (Sites) Property description or name for the ICP
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16. (Sites) The Five Mountains in China are perhaps the holiest places of pilgrimage for Daoists.
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17. (Sites) are places or areas being analyzed for potential conservation action.
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18. (Sites) is the number of unique IP addresses/hostnames that made requests to the server. Care should be taken when using this metric for anything other than that. ...
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19. (Sites) means collectively the Practice Site, the DirectLaw Site and the Rapidocs LawDraft Site as the context shall require;
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20. A parcel of land, sufficiently improved to be used as a building lot or for other purposes requiring an improved site.
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21. the combination of biotic, climatic, topographic, and soil conditions of an area.
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22. A single instance where a network has been installed.
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23. A single web page or a collection of related Web pages.
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24. This variable is identical to $(faculty) and may be used interchangeably.
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25. Any location on which a facility is constructed or is proposed to be constructed.
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26. A location where human activities once took place and left some form of material evidence.
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27. a specific location at or on the premises of the consignor, consignee, or other designated party.
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Pronunciation : IPA

  • /saɪt/
  • -aɪt
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Pronunciation : Audio

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