The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
thesite 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 theSite of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
1785, Henry Morris,Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co,page74:
At thesite 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 thesite.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page vii:
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects thesite 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[…]
2006, Ernest B Abbott,A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments[1], American Bar Association,→ISBN, page84:
EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of thesite.
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
asite for a church
1716, Samuel Wesley,The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke,page192:
The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of itsSite, 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.
1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions, R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock,p. 208
Having given you an Account of theSite, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
2006, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird,The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations, Zondervan,→ISBN,page 7:
Our firstsite 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.
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 Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill,p. 179,
And if this be the Shape, andSite, 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.
1724, John Beaumont,Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words], W. Taylor,page11:
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 theSite of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
2006, Ernest B Abbott,A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments[2], American Bar Association,→ISBN, page84:
Maintainsite setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
1982, Jack B. Rochester,Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page433:
The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data basesite 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 thesite is forced to send a message against its will,[…],we make thesite go to an error state, and remain there. Note that thesite can fail for other reasons.
2006, Keith J. Dreyer,Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, Springer,→ISBN,page298:
Thesite with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
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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 tosite 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 tosite pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
1961 October, “Editorial: The importance of the "Roadrailer"”, inTrains Illustrated, page577:
The old staple of coal is a declining traffic; and what remains tends to be hauled a shorter distance, as new power stations aresited closer to coalfields.
2006, Mark Jaccard,Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page22:
It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts tosite and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
2006,The Scotsman (15 Dec 06):
Fury at plan tosite homeless hostel near top Capital school.
2022 September 20, Ezra Klein, quoting Jesse Jenkins, “Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Jesse Jenkins”, inThe New York Times[4],→ISSN:
[…] they have not expanded so far federal permitting authority tosite and permit transmission lines that are important for interstate commerce.
R. Shafer (1944) “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, inBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume11, number 2, page429
K. E. Herr (2011)The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[5], Payap University, page50
a. 1307,Piers Langtoft,Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne,Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, inThe Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810)p. 5
Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow &site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.
2009, Raúl Candeloro,A Hora da Virada, Elsevier Brasil,→ISBN,page58:
Digamos que eu queira colocar umhome theater na sala de minha casa. Posso comprar a televisão em um lugar porque é mais barato, comprar as caixas em outro porque um amigo me indicou, comprar o resto do equipamento numsite da internet e receber em casa, e depois tentar montar tudo sozinho.
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