WORDs and wHEREabOUTs

LOCATE-

1. to identify or discover the place or location of.

2. to set, fix or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle.

3. to assign or ascribe a particular location to (something), as by knowledge or opinion.

4. to survey and enter a claim to a tract of land; take possession of land.

Origin:

1650's "to establish oneself in a place, settle," from L. locatus, pp. of locare "to place. Sense of "mark the limits of a place" is attested from 1739 in Amer.Eng.; this developed to "establish something in a place" and "to find out the place of"