site
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: sites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
obsolete
form: sites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: siting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
pos: noun
examples: the site of a city or of a house
1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,
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.
1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England. The Second Edition, with large Additions and Corrections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,
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.
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
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.
gloss: A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The posture or position of a thing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
pos: noun
examples: 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...
1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, p. 208,
If the site is forced to send a message 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.
gloss: A website.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: 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.
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.
On September 21, white supremacist site The Daily Stormer, domainless after multiple providers dropped it over its coverage of the violent rally in Charlottesville, registered dailystormer.cat.
gloss: A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
pos: noun
gloss: Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
pos: noun
gloss: A part of the body which has been operated on.
pos: noun
gloss: To situate or place a building or construction project.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,
For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
The old staple of coal is a declining traffic; and what remains tends to be hauled a shorter distance, as new power stations are sited closer to coalfields.
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.
[…] they have not expanded so far federal permitting authority to site and permit transmission lines that are important for interstate commerce.
Related words: in situ
situate
situation
situs
Derived words: antisite
A-site
autosite
bedsite
binsite
birdsite
birthsite
blogsite
bomb site
bombsite
call site
campsite
camsite
caravan site
chat site
cobweb site
common-site picketing
coupon site
cross-site
cross-site request forgery
cross-site scripting
drafting site
dreaming site
dropsite
dumpsite
dynamic site
ecosite
E-site
exosite
fansite
fieldsite
filling site
fill site
fire site
gapsite
geomorphosite
geosite
gravesite
gripesite
gunsite
halting site
hatesite
hellsite
historic site
homesite
ichnosite
intersite
intrasite
I-site
island site
jobsite
landsite
meanwhile site
metasite
microsite
millsite
minesite
minisite
mirror site
multisite
off-site
offsite
onsite
on-site
on site
orange site
oversite
paysite
persistent cross-site scripting
phosphosite
photosite
picnic site
porn site
porn-site
portal site
protosite
pseudosite
P-site
reflected cross-site scripting
resite
scatter site
shock site
single-serving site
siteable
siteban
site-faithful
siteholder
siteless
sitelet
site map
siteop
siterip
siteswap
sitewide
sitewise
Starfish site
static site
subsite
supersite
supervised injection site
test site
topsite
townsite
tracksite
tube site
type-site
type site
Web site
web-site
wellsite
worksite
World Heritage site
wrecksite
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