Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Locate

Locate , transitive verb

[Latin locatus, past participle of locare to place, from locus place. See Local.]

1.
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. — B. F. Westcott
2.
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. — H. Spencer
3.
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 , intransitive verb

To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. [Colloquial]