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site
- /saɪt/
Sounds like cite, sight · Rhymes with -aɪt
Where it comes from
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.
noun sites · scite
- The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position the site of a city or of a house
- A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation a site for a church
- 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 Chr
- 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...
- A website. 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.
- A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
- Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
- A part of the body which has been operated on.
verb sites · siting · sited · scite
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: situation, locate, place, land site, space, instance, facility, stop, standing, exploitation, stand, terminus, off-site, sit, occur, elevation
Translations
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noun place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
| Español | solar, sitio |
|---|---|
| Português | sítio, local, lugar |
| Français | site, emplacement |
| Deutsch | Standort |
| Ελληνικά | τόπος tópos, χώρος chóros, τοποθεσία topothesía |
| Русский | местоположе́ние mestopoložénije, местонахожде́ние mestonaxoždénije, ме́сто mésto, положе́ние položénije, уча́сток učástok |
| العربية | مَوْضِع mawḍiʕ |
| עברית | אֲתָר atár |
noun place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
| Español | sitio |
|---|---|
| Français | site |
| Ελληνικά | τόπος tópos, χώρος chóros |
| Русский | уча́сток učástok, площа́дка ploščádka, ме́сто mésto |
noun a computer installation
| Ελληνικά | εγκατάσταση egkatástasi |
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title = {site},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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