site in English dictionary

  • site

    Meanings and definitions of "site"

    • (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
    • The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
    • A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
    • The posture or position of a thing.
    • A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
    • A website.
    • (architecture) To situate or place a building.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Sorrow, grief.
    • noun
      The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
    • noun
      A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
    • noun
      The posture or position of a thing.
    • noun
      A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
    • noun
      A website.
    • noun
      (category theory)
      A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
    • noun
      Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
    • noun
      A part of the body which has been operated on.
    • verb
      (architecture)
      To situate or place a building.
    • A business location to which resources are assigned. A site is used to ensure that all resources required for a service are in the same physical location.
    • noun
      a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers"
    • noun
      physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
    • noun
      the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
    • verb
      assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"

    Synonyms of "site" in English dictionary

    computing machine, information processing system, piece of land are the top synonyms of "site" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of site

    • site ( plural  sites)
    • site ( third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)
    • site (plural sites)
    • site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)
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