site

site
▪ I. site site 1 [saɪt] noun [countable]
1. PROPERTY an area of ground that is used or is going to be used for a particular purpose:

• On any building site, falling is the most frequent type of accident.

• The Sunnyvale City Council last week approved a 186-unit apartment complex on the 4.5 acre site.

• Solectron employs 2,200 people at sites in San Jose and Milpitas.

ˈbrownfield ˌsite PROPERTY
a site used for building where there has already been building, industrial activity etc, especially in a town or city:

• The government wants to raise the proportion of housing built on brownfield sites, rather than on unspoilt countryside.

ˈgreenfield ˌsite PROPERTY
a site used for building where there has never been building or industrial activity in the past:

• As the space requirements of companies changed, they sought more open greenfield sites away from the cities.

ˌwork site also worksite
a building or area where work is done or where something is being built:

• Offices, factories, and other work sites should have a plan in operation for further training of the work force.

2. COMPUTING a website (= place on the Internet where you can find information about something )
destiˈnation ˌsite
COMPUTING a website that people often visit first because it has many link S (= parts you can click on ) that take them to other websites; = portal
  [m0] ▪ II. site site 2 verb
be sited in/​near etc PROPERTY be placed or built in a particular area:

• The new factory is to be sited in Fort Collins.

— siting noun [singular] :

• The siting of electricity facilities and their emissions to the atmosphere both raise questions that are becoming more difficult to resolve.

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site UK US /saɪt/ noun [C]
► INTERNET a place on the internet where a person, company, or organization can give information about their products or services: »

The student activities page is the most viewed page on the college's site.

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eBay was founded as the first internet auction site in 1995.

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access/search/visit a site

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build/create/design a site

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host/set up a site

► PROPERTY an area of land or place where a particular business, industrial, manufacturing, etc. activity happens or is planned to happen: »

The plant sits on a 37-acre site in a field off a rural road.

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We provide generators and small natural-gas compressors for drilling sites.

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Plans by a private property company to build offices on a prime site in Kensington face rejection by local councillors.

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This is the proposed site for the gasworks.

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a building/construction site

→ See also BROWNFIELD(Cf. ↑brownfield), DESTINATION SITE(Cf. ↑destination site), GREENFIELD SITE(Cf. ↑greenfield site), MIRROR SITE(Cf. ↑mirror site), OFF-SITE(Cf. ↑off-site), ONSITE(Cf. ↑onsite) adverb, RUN OF SITE(Cf. ↑run of site), SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE(Cf. ↑social networking site), WEBSITE(Cf. ↑website), WORKSITE(Cf. ↑worksite)
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site UK US /saɪt/ verb [T, usually + adv/prep] FORMAL PROPERTY
► to build something in a particular place: be sited »

The wind turbines would be sited about 20 miles offshore.

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The rail company does not need planning permission to erect the communications masts as long as they are sited on railway land.

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Siting landfills has become more difficult as public awareness grows.


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  • Site — Site, n. [L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p. situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. {Position}.] 1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. A… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Site — 〈[ saıt] f. 10; EDV〉 Bildschirmseite (im Internet) (WebSite) [engl., eigtl. „Stelle, Stätte“] * * * Site [sa̮it ], die; , s [engl. site, ↑ Website] (EDV): Kurzf. von ↑ Website. * * * SITE   [saɪ …   Universal-Lexikon

  • site — m. site. Site arquelogic, site oèb : site archéologique ; site web …   Diccionari Personau e Evolutiu

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  • Site — [ sait, engl. sʌit] die; , s <aus engl. site »Standort, Stelle«> Kurzform von ↑Website …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • site — place or position occupied by something, late 14c., from Anglo Fr. site, from L. situs place, position, from si , root of sinere let, leave alone, permit …   Etymology dictionary

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