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Site

//saɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

    "the site of a city or of a house"

  2. 2
    a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web wordnet
  3. 3
    A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

    "a site for a church"

  4. 4
    physical position in relation to the surroundings wordnet
  5. 5
    The posture or position of a thing.

    "1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179, 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."

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  1. 6
    the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) wordnet
  2. 7
    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..."

  3. 8
    A website. Internet

    "1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi, [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material."

  4. 9
    A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
  5. 10
    Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
  6. 11
    A part of the body which has been operated on.
Verb
  1. 1
    To situate or place a building or construction project.

    "The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down."

  2. 2
    assign a location to wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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