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site

Pronunciation: /saɪt/

The English word “site” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
  2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
  3. The posture or position of a thing.
  4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
  5. A website.
  6. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
  7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
  8. A part of the body which has been operated on.

verb

  1. To situate or place a building or construction project.

Etymology

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.

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