site

noun \ ˈsīt \

Updated on: 20 Apr 2018

Definition of site

1 a : the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (such as a building, town, or monuments)

b : a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building

2 a : the place, scene, or point of an occurrence or event

a picnic site

b : one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others

an FTP site

; especially : website

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Examples of site in a Sentence

Hard hats must be worn on the construction site.
They visited the site of their future house.
The company has chosen a new site for its office building.
the site of the battle
Federal investigators combed through the crash site.

Recent Examples of site from the Web

Igor Kirillov, a Russian chemical weapons protection expert in The Hague, said the team is set to visit the site Wednesday.

— Time, "Investigators Were Kept from Entering the Site of the Alleged Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria," 18 Apr. 2018
Participants will help with trail maintenance, gardening, and decommissioning site-responsive artworks that have outlived their useful lives.

— Courant Community, "Community News For The Colchester Edition," 17 Apr. 2018
The ruling by the European Court of Justice said that, in increasing logging in the Bialowieza Forest in 2016, Poland failed to fulfil its obligations to protect natural sites of special importance.

— Washington Post, "Top EU court: Poland broke law by logging in pristine forest," 17 Apr. 2018
Minnesota, site of Super Bowl LII, took in $137 million from non-resident athletes across the four major sports in 2015.

— jacob feldman, SI.com, "The Taxing World of NFL Players’ Finances," 17 Apr. 2018
Northville has been the site of horse racing since 1911.

— jc reindl, Detroit Free Press, "Northville Downs, Michigan's last horse track, to become upscale homes," 17 Apr. 2018
Doan Brook flooded the job site and debris from it made its way to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd after heavy rains Sunday.

— emily bamforth, cleveland.com, "Flooding of Doan Valley NEORSD job site contributed debris to University Circle flooding," 16 Apr. 2018
Job sites for this year’s event include Haven Hollow Park, Field of Dreams Park, Jim Lynch Park, Evergreen Park, McCool Road and South Haven Boys and Girls Club.

— chicago tribune, chicagotribune.com, "Students to unveil World Relief Project at The VIC," 13 Apr. 2018
Also under him, the gloomy main lobby of the museum was transformed into a space for site-specific installations.

— sam roberts, New York Times, "Robert T. Buck, Who Revitalized Brooklyn Museum, Dies at 79," 12 Apr. 2018

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cite, sight, and site

The three homophones cite, sight, and site are occasionally confused by some people when used as nouns (sight and site) or as verbs (all three words). They needn’t cause trouble: with a little thought, most people who struggle with them can settle upon the correct choice.

Cite is most often encountered in the sense of “to name in a citation”; it may also mean “to mention as an example” or “to order to appear in a court of law.“

Most of the senses of sight are concerned with the act or action of seeing. A wonderful spectacle might be described as a sight, as might the general capacity to see anything (“my sight is not as good as it once was”).

Site is most often concerned with location; it is related to the verb situate "to locate" and situation "a position." A building site is the place where the building is, or will be, located. In contemporary English, site has increasingly been used as a shortened form of website, for the location of a specific page on the Internet.

If you connect citation with cite, eyesight with sight, and situate with site, you are unlikely to make an error.