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site

/saɪt/

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What does site mean?

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.
More meanings (6)

noun

  1. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
  2. A website.
  3. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
  4. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
  5. A part of the body which has been operated on.

verb

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

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IPA pronunciation

/saɪt/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
They had chosen a very pretty site near the top of a tall white lilac, within easy eye-shot of a chamber window.
James Russell LowellMy Garden AcquaintanceProject Gutenberg ebook #880
More book examples (3)
Stories of crime and bloodshed are read by everybody with great avidity,--and people will go miles to the site of grim tragedy.
Abraham MyersonThe Foundations of PersonalityProject Gutenberg ebook #1575
The site of the city should perhaps be sought on the upper course of the stream, where it tends to approach Nippur.
L. W. (Leonard William) KingLegends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew TraditionProject Gutenberg ebook #2030
Immediately beyond these pyramids he came upon an open plateau, which he considered to have been the site of the city proper.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873