site

1. The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) (synset 108668822)
   "a good site for the school"
   is a type of: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract - an extended area of land
   subtypes:

   • camp, summer camp - a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
   • apron - (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green
   • bomb site - an area in a town that has been devastated by bombs
   • bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment - a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
   • burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis - a tract of land used for burials
   • archeological site, dig, excavation - the site of an archeological exploration
   • dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard - a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
   • fairway - the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short
   • green, putting green, putting surface - an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
   • launching site - a place for launching pads
   • monument - an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
   • premises - land and the buildings on it
   • rough - the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
   • tee, teeing ground - the starting place for each hole on a golf course
   • superfund site, toxic site, toxic waste area - a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up
   specific instances:

   • ground zero - the site of the World Trade Center before it was destroyed
   • lateran - the site in Rome containing the church of Rome and the Lateran Palace
   same as: land site
2. Physical position in relation to the surroundings (synset 108640525)
   "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
   is a type of: place, position - the particular portion of space occupied by something
   subtypes:

   • active site - the part of an enzyme or antibody where the chemical reaction occurs
   • close quarters - a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something
   • locus - the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome
   • locus of infection - the specific site in the body where an infection originates
   • restriction site - the specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNA
   • antigenic determinant, determinant, epitope - the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
   same as: situation
3. A computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web (synset 106370600)
   "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers"
   is a type of: computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system - a machine for performing calculations automatically
   subtypes:

   • chat room, chatroom - a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic)
   • portal, portal site - a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet
   same as: internet site, web site, website

1. Assign a location to (synset 202338685)
   "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
   is a type of: place, post, send, station - assign to a station
   same as: locate, place

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