site

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 76.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

   the site of a city or of a house

2. noun A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

   a site for a church

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

Similar words

situation locate place land site space instance facility stop standing exploitation

Often followed by

of for and is in was at to on

Word family

sited sites siting sitting