site
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
site/sʌɪt/
▶noun
- 1 an area of ground on which something is located.
- 2 a place where a particular event or activity is occurring or has occurred.
- 3 short for website.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., or from L. situs ‘local position’.
usage: Do not confuse site and sight. As a noun, site means ‘a place where something is located or has occurred’ (the site of the battle), while sight chiefly means ‘the faculty or power of seeing’ (he lost his sight as a baby).
'site' also found in these Oxford entries:
active site
- air
- ancient monument
- autotransplantation
- bank
- binding site
- blast
- boulevard
- Bow Street Runner
- brownfield
- bulletin board
- camp
- campus
- complex
- cross-dating
- dig
- diggings
- dot-com
- dot-org
- dubnium
- dump
- encampment
- focal
- focus
- ghetto
- Greenwich Mean Time
- guestbook
- Hallstatt
- hoarding
- holiday camp
- human chain
- hyphen
- industrial estate
- itch
- Kaaba
- keloid
- kop
- Lipizzaner
- locality
- Magdalenian
- magenta
- main line
- mall
- Maris Piper
- message board
- metastasis
- mews
- mirror
- monument
- motte
