site
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "site"
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).
Noun
site (plural sites)
- (obsolete) Sorrow, grief. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The 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.
- a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5
Etymology 2
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
site (plural sites)
- The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- 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....
- 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, page 74:
- At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 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 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 […]
- 2006, Ernest B Abbott, A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments, American Bar Association, →ISBN, page 84:
- EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site.
- A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- a site 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, page 192:
- 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.
- 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 the Site, 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 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.
- 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, 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.
- 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, page 11:
- 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.
- 2006, Ernest B Abbott, A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments, American Bar Association, →ISBN, page 84:
- Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
- 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,
- A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- 1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 433:
- 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.
- (Internet) A website.
- (category theory) 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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- antisite
- autosite
- bedsite
- binsite
- birdsite
- birthsite
- blogsite
- bombsite
- bomb site
- 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
- exosite
- fansite
- fieldsite
- gapsite
- geomorphosite
- gravesite
- gripesite
- gunsite
- halting site
- hatesite
- hellsite
- historic site
- homesite
- ichnosite
- intersite
- intrasite
- I-site
- island site
- jobsite
- metasite
- microsite
- millsite
- minesite
- minisite
- multisite
- off-site
- offsite
- on-site
- on site
- oversite
- paysite
- persistent cross-site scripting
- phosphosite
- photosite
- picnic site
- porn site
- porn-site
- portal site
- protosite
- reflected cross-site scripting
- resite
- scatter site
- shock site
- single-serving site
- siteable
- 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
Related terms
Translations
place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
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place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
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posture or position of a thing
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a computer installation
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a website
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region where chemical reactions take place
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
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Verb
site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961 October, “Editorial: The importance of the "Roadrailer"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577:
- 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.
- 2006, Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
- 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.
- 2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06):
- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
- 2022 September 20, Ezra Klein, quoting Jesse Jenkins, “Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Jesse Jenkins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- […] they have not expanded so far federal permitting authority to site and permit transmission lines that are important for interstate commerce.
Further reading
site on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “site”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “site”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “site”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *taci (“younger sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta-huaji, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.
Noun
site
References
- Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.
Etymology
Pronoun
site
- we (inclusive) will never
- so we (inclusive) do not
Related terms
| Present and past tense | Negative tense | Future | Negative future | Distant future | Negative determinate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First person | ua | use | upwe | usap | upwap | ute |
| Second person | ka, ke | kose, kese | kopwe, kepwe | kosap, kesap | kopwap, kepwap | kote, kete | |
| Third person | a | ese | epwe | esap | epwap | ete | |
| Plural | First person | aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive) | ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive) | aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive) | ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive) | aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive) | aute (exclusive) site (inclusive) |
| Second person | oua | ouse | oupwe | ousap | oupwap | oute | |
| Third person | ra, re | rese | repwe | resap | repwap | rete |
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
site m (plural sites, diminutive siteje n)
- web site
- archaeological site
- Synonym: opgraving
- (uncommon) construction site
- Synonym: bouwplaats
Derived terms
- advertentiesite
- datingsite
- gamesite
- goksite
- internetsite
- nieuwssite
- sekssite
- pornosite
- vacaturesite
- veilingsite
Etymology
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English site, a clipping of website.
Pronunciation
Noun
site m (plural sites)
Derived terms
- site de rencontres
- site web
- site Internet
- site perso
Further reading
- “site”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Pronunciation
Adjective
site f pl
Anagrams
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshia.
Pronunciation
Adjective
site
Synonyms
- hawi-yte
Derived terms
References
Participle
site
Noun
site
- Alternative form of cite
Verb
site
Pronunciation
Verb
site
Etymology
Noun
site oblique singular, m (oblique plural sites, nominative singular sites, nominative plural site)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (site)
- sit on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀲𑀺𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- सिते (Devanagari script)
- সিতে (Bengali script)
- සිතෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သိတေ (Burmese script)
- สิเต (Thai script)
- ᩈᩥᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ສິເຕ (Lao script)
- សិតេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄨𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
site
Adjective
site
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English site.
Pronunciation
Noun
site m (plural sites)
Usage notes
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:site.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English site.
Pronunciation
Noun
site n (plural site-uri)
Declension
Declension of site
Derived terms
Adjective
site
- inflection of sit:
Noun
site
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)
Declension
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| Nominative | site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | siteyi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singular | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominative | site | siteler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | siteyi | siteleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dative | siteye | sitelere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locative | sitede | sitelerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ablative | siteden | sitelerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | sitenin | sitelerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Etymology 2
Orthographic borrowing from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.
Noun
site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)
Declension
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| Nominative | site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | siteyi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singular | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominative | site | siteler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | siteyi | siteleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dative | siteye | sitelere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locative | sitede | sitelerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ablative | siteden | sitelerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | sitenin | sitelerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
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