situate
IPA: sˈɪtʃueɪt
verb
- (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.
- (transitive) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
adjective
- (now rare) Situated.
- (heraldry) Situated; located.
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Examples of "situate" in Sentences
- But let's keep "situate;" it's still on the upswing!
- It helps us to situate God's presence in time and in place for us as Christians.
- I press up against the lockers after final bell, waiting for Z to situate things in his backpack and get his lock secured just so.
- This form, "situate," may be Pater's archaism for situated, or it may simply be a typographic error in the original published edition.
- The cloud systems I am interested in exploring acknowledge this legacy but also situate themselves one step closer to an interest in the particles themselves.
- Some opening titles situate us a bit, but that's it, and if you know nothing of the dirty protests or this particular period in the history of Irish-English relations, you will have only the vaguest idea of what is happening and why.
- Each of these actions warrants close examination, but first it is important to situate them in historical context and especially in the context of efforts by Republican presidents since Richard Nixon to greatly expand presidential powers.
- But if we situate its controversial coverage in a general climate of political profiteering and impunity of leaders, then Al Jazeera appears more a network on a mission, not only to report but to restore Arab dignity and replace muzzled politics with a new culture of civil dialogue.
- In January, 1679, a file of burdened men, some thirty in number, toiling slowly on their way over the snowy plains and "through the gloomy forests of spruce and naked oak trees," the priest accompanying with his altar lashed to his back, reached a favorable spot beside calm water several miles above the cataract: the site is identified as situate a little way above the mouth of Cayuga Creek, just outside the village of La Salle, in the State of New York.