Definition of site
1a : 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
2a : the place, scene, or point of an occurrence or event a picnic siteb : 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.
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.
Origin and Etymology of site
Middle English, place, position, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French sit, site, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow
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Definition of site
sited
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transitive verb
: to place on a site or in position : locate
First Known Use of site
15th century
SITE Defined for English Language Learners
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: the place where something (such as a building) is, was, or will be located
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: a place where something important has happened
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: a place that is used for a particular activity
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Definition of site for English Language Learners
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: to place or build (something) in a particular location
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Medical Dictionary
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playMedical Definition of site
: the place, scene, or point of something the site of inflammation—see active site
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