siten.
/sʌɪt/, U.S. /saɪt/ 1. † a. A place or position; a location. Obsolete except in specific senses.† b. Without article or other determiner: place, position, esp. in relation something else. Obsolete.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun]
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ix. 1128 Þe water addre..infecteþ þe place þat he glydeþ inne and makeþ þe sight smoky [L. locum per quem labitur fumare facit].
?c1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 63 Þan drawe a lyne..in anoþer site, þat es to say, place of þe table.
a1500 St. Jerome (Lamb.) in Anglia (1880) 3 334 (MED) No man doute that he hathe one of the gretest and hyghest siteis among the mansyonnys of oure euer-lasting ffadir.
1596 T. Lodge Diuel Coniured sig. Diii Peculiar and determinate obseruances, (as certaine houres, a certaine scite of stars).
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 165 Supposing all things to arise from the different Compositions of Magnitudes, Figures, Sites, and Motions.
a1745 J. Swift Progress of Beauty in Wks. (1755) III. ii. 164 Three colours,..So graceful in their proper place, Remove them to a diff'rent scite [1727: Light], They form a frightful hideous face.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxxvi. 239 For citee [read cite] and place [L. situs] of þe kynde of veynes is conuenyent place of þe herte.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 469 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 314 In syte [emended in ed. to syce] ichon from oþer shalle be Þe lenghthe of oþer, þat men may se.
1577 J. Bishop Beautifull Blossomes i. f. 2v God is great with out quantitie, good without qualitie, president without site.
1599 T. Blundeville Art of Logike i. xvi. 39 How is site deuided of the Schoolemen? Into site naturall and casuall.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 67 Site, or situation, as it is the passion of a thing placed, belongeth hither.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. H Site doth confine This point; take site away it's straight a spark divine.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 199 When words..are in site or placing disjoyned.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. ix. 29 Site is the order of the parts of the body amongst themselves.
1710 D. Defoe Ess. Public Credit 6 It has no Whereness, or Whenness, Scite, or Habit.
c. The place or position occupied by some specified thing; the fixed or proper location of a thing. Now only in Anatomy.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied
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c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §17. 28 Fro [the] Equinoxial may the declinacion..of any body celestial be rikned, after the site north or south.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 3322 Þe clere sterris of Iades so red Whiche han her siȝt in þe Crabbis hed.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. 22v Marriners..learne to know..the sight and place of rockes and shelues.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 184 The fourth difference [in distillation] is by the site and placing of the vessell.
1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 154 The Rocks Tumbling downe from their scytes.
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 353 A Body is..the result of all the Integral parts put together in their due Scite and proper Order.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 106 The Chamæleon he imitates the Woodspite..in the site of his Toes.
1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 176 There was undoubtedly such a Tract of West Variation in the Southern Parts of the South-Sea, it being the necessary Consequence of the Site of the four Magnetical Poles.
1834 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 20 367 The most common and earlier symptoms of the disease are either,—firstly, some description of uneasy sensation referred to the site of the liver.
1969 D. E. Beischer in M. F. Barnothy Biol. Effects Magn. Fields II. 256 The site of the aorta and the site of the heart [are] about equidistant from the surface of the body.
2005 R. K. Clark Anat. & Physiol. xii. 221/1 In its membrane, the cochlear ear duct contains the organ of Corti, the site of the cochlear hair cells.
d. The location of a wound, tumour, disease, etc., in or on the body.
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1662 J. Cooke Art Chirurg. i. ii. i, in Mellificium Chirurg. (new ed.) ii. 62 Other differences are taken from magnitude, Symptomes, Scite, as outward and inward.
1698 W. Salmon Ars Chirurgica v. xix. 877/1 What Parts are wounded, are to be discovered by putting in the Probe, or else from the site of the Wound by Anatomical Deductions.
1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. vi. 82 The ill Habit of his Body and the Site of the Tumour bordering so near the Fundament..gave me Reason to suspect a Sinuous Ulcer.
1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 82/2 The pain is rarely confined to its primary and principal site in the cardiac region.
1883 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Nov. 857/2 In damp weather he feels very slight inconvenience in the site of the old fracture.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 14 Mar. 617/2 Another site of significant disease was the kidneys, which exhibited multiple small yellowish-tan abscesses in both the cortical and the medullary areas.
2002 Times 12 Aug. (Football Suppl.) 5/2 Initial treatment is difficult because of the swelling, which is often a result of internal bleeding at the injury site.
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a. The geographical location of a building, city, country, etc., or its position in relation to its surroundings; = situation n. 3. Also occasionally without article or other determiner.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied > in respect of surroundings
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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. met. iv. l. 1165 Yif þou wolt flee þe perilous auenture..Haue mynde certeynly to ficchyn þi house of a myrie site in a lowe stoone.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (1873) l. 199 Noght fer fro thilke paleys honurable Wher as this Markys shoope his mariage Ther stood a Throope of site delitable.
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Ai The magnificall scites and scituations of greate mens houses.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. June 1 Lo Collin, here the place, whose pleasaunt syte From other shades hath weand my wandring mynde.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. 582 Anniball..rode to the gate Capena, for to view the site of the cittie.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 3 Some force whole Regions, in despight O' Geography, to change their site.
1714 R. Steele Poet. Misc. 292 A House by Scite and Structure warm.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 6 The castle is an instance of the sublime in scite and architecture.
1807 R. Cumberland Mem. II. 150 In this valley, on the banks of the fertilizing Douro, would be the proper scite for the capital of Spain.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 70 The loss of health caused by the pestilential site of a dwelling.
1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 Mar. 556/2 The importance of site is gradually being recognized.
2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Domain section) 10 The 1940s house didn't take advantage of its dramatic site: perched on sandstone cliffs, it has a sweeping outlook across the ocean.
b. An area of land occupied by a building, town, etc., or which is set apart for some purpose.building site, campsite, caravan site, landfill site, landing site, launch site, missile site, nesting site, picnic site, World Heritage Site, etc.: see the first element.See also on-site adj., off-site adj.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place set apart for special purpose
groundc1400
placec1420
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > site of or for (a) building(s)
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steading1822
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building-land1905
island site1907
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tract1912
a1443 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xxxiii (MED) Isabell Stanley, prioresse..holdeth of youre said suppliauntes as in the right of heir priorie, a site of a water mylle.
1461–2 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §41. m. 19 Londes..such as been and make the syte or sites of any such abbey, priory [etc.].
1547 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 131 The Sightes..wheruppon the same ij churches Are nowe..buyldyd.
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 48 Scyte, precinkte, and Compasse of the late dissolved Hospitall.
1564 N. Haward tr. Eutropius Briefe Chron. i. sig. C He layed the syte of a small citye, in the hyl Pallatinus.
1649 Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 33 The sites and precincts hereby intended are declared to be the bodie of the Abbie, one garden and orchard [etc.].
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cornw. 202 He conferred on him and his heirs the rich demesne and scite of Middleton.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 167 The Descendants..are still in possession of the Scite of the Castle.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §130 (note) Upon this scite the Baths and Long Room have since been erected.
1813 Caledonian Mercury 4 Dec. The sale of sites for houses would yield a considerable sum to the town.
1835 F. Palgrave Hist. Anglo-Saxons iv. 89 The entrenchments..just enable us to trace the scite of the royal residence.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 38 The costly nature of the work in making good the site, when the soil is not naturally suitable.
1963 Camping (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 46/2 Have consideration for other campers. Do not stroll into someone else's site just as they are in the middle of morning ablutions.
1973 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful ii. iv. 129 There will be a continuous traffic of radioactive substances..from the stations to waste-processing plants; and from there to disposal sites.
1980 J. McNeil Spy Game xix. 189 It was shoe-horned between the radar assembly sheds, a piece of open ground which had miraculously escaped the rash of building covering the rest of the site.
2017 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 18 Jan. 1 Two drive-through take-aways could be built on a site near the centre of Stirling.
c. A place where something happens or has happened; the location of a specific event, occurrence, or activity.accident site, bomb-site, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > in which something takes place or prevails
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the scene of (the) action1650
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a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 184 Looke now vpon my Sister Germanie; The Seat of Warre, the Scite of Miserie.
1837 N. Amer. Rev. July 34 Mounds and ditches very conclusively show the sites of ancient labor.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 151 In the ninth century Lake Mälar was the site of so prosperous a trade.
1896 Rolfe (Iowa) Reveille 20 Feb. 1/2 A. R. Fulton visited the site in 1869 and found portions of skeletons mercilessly indented with tomahawk marks, and other relics of the battle.
1979 Maclean's (Toronto) 8 Oct. 6 Only 30 were in good enough shape physically and financially to make this year's pilgrimage back to the battle sites.
2016 Spacing Winter 22/1 Ghost bikes—scrapped bicycles painted white and fixed at the site of a fatal collision—are the latest addition to the convention of honouring the dead.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun]
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gesture?1548
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posture1605
positure1621
figure1658
pose1818
body mechanics1922
1573 T. Cartwright Replye to Answere Whitgifte 132 Kneeling is the fittest site or position of the body.
a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 415 Christ His Site; that, He stood, when He wished it: His Place; that, in the middst, He stood.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 148 That uprightness and straitness, which is the most useful site of most plants.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 153 The conveniency of this Site of our Bodies.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 49 The Semblance of a Lover, fix'd In melancholy Site, with Head declin'd.
4. Archaeology. A place containing the remains of former human habitation; an excavation.habitation site, shadow-site, type site: see the first element.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological site
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1843 K. Baillie in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1840–4 (1846) 2 407 The most interesting of the inscriptions which he brought from these sites is a fragment of one of an early date.
1890 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 6 190 Intersecting trenches were run across the site from north to south and east to west.
1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. Apr. in T. E. Lawrence et al. Home Lett. (1954) 149 The dig has proved a failure to the present (tho' there is still hope of one part of the site).
1961 M. A. Towle Ethnobotany Pre-Columbian Peru 32 Unworked, heckled fibers have been discovered in archaeological sites on the coast.
1977 Times 13 Aug. 14/4 More than four fifths of the villa's walls have been destroyed by ploughing and erosion, and Mr Sumpter feels that the site would not have survived another year's ploughing.
2016 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Feb. c3/1 A pioneering space archaeologist who uses satellite imagery to discover ancient sites.
5. The location within the body in which a physiological or pathological process occurs. In later use also Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: the location in or on a molecule, cell, etc., at which chemical activity or interaction occurs. Cf. site-directed adj. at Compounds 3.active site, binding site, restriction site: see the first element.
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the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun]
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1861 W. Brinton On Food & its Digestion ii. 24 The nutritional fluid must..be regarded as the chief or collective site of the decomposition this process implies.
1916 A. W. Hewlett Monographic Med. I. ii. 175 Not only are the small intestines the principal site of digestion but they are also the principal site of absorption.
1926 Biochem. Jrnl. 20 167 The problem of determining the mechanism of oxidation resolves itself into three separate problems: (1) determination of the site of activation of a substrate molecule [etc.].
1966 C. R. Leeson & T. S. Leeson Histol. viii. 140/1 In the fetus..blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.
1982 K. H. Muench in T. M. Devlin Textbk. Biochem. xix. 943 (caption) Human proinsulin. After cleavage at the two sites indicated..the arginine residues..and the lysine residue..are removed to give insulin and C-peptide.
2015 B. H. Lee Fund. Food Biotechnol. (ed. 2) i. 92 The ER is an important site for protein folding in eukaryotes.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun] > part of
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1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 27 At a suitable distance from the intended wall a ‘site’ is first planted... This consists of a baulk of squared timbers, frequently about 4 in. square.
7. U.S. slang. A job on a fishing vessel.
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society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun]
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noteOE
officec1300
ministry?a1475
rooma1485
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roomth1544
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situation1766
job1781
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spot1859
billet1870
engagement1884
shop1885
gig1908
lurk1916
possie1916
number1928
site1930
sits vac1945
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > member of crew > position as
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1930 Amer. Speech 5 393 Site, a place as fisherman aboard a fishing vessel.
1957 Maine Coast Fisherman July 21/1 Skipper Farrell won't offer a site to a cook who will only cook.
1977 New Yorker 15 Aug. 46/3 Joe, who generally keeps his own counsel, tells me that he is hoping to get a site—a job—on the Sniktaw.
2000 W. McCloskey Breakers vi. 81 The Terminal docks teemed with healthy young guys seeking a site.
8. Computing.
a. The location of a computer or computer system, esp. one that runs a web server.
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1969 S. Crocker Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 1. 6 As [read at] some sites a great deal of work has gone into making the computer highly responsive to a sophisticated console.]
1970 Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 61. 8 To receive is added a parameter specifying a site to which the receive is to be sent.
1982 net.general 3 Jan. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 10 Aug. 2006) I would appreciate it if each site would take a moment to install the remainder of this message in their netnews source directory as file readme.
2004 Enterprise Sept. 12/3 If things went to hell and the prime and backup sites both shut down, BC Central would have to fall back on its ‘cold’ disaster recovery centre in New Westminster, BC.
b. The notional location on the World Wide Web at which a particular collection of related and linked web pages, typically produced by a single person, organization, etc., can be accessed; = website n.See also Compounds 2.
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1992 InfoWorld (Nexis) 1 June This file gives me an updated list of most anonymous ftp sites and a quick description of the type of files available at each site.
1995 Computer Weekly 5 Oct. 36/3 People who appear to be working at their screens could be..contributing to the Star Trek fan club or visiting Playboy magazine's site.
2000 Computer Weekly 20 Apr. 50/1 The emphasis is on what is called dwell time—how long a visitor can be kept on the site to view those all-important advertisements.
2015 N.Y. Mag. 10 Aug. 57/1 The ticker at the bottom of the site's home page..tells you what the world is buying right now.
Phrases
plane of site: see plane n.3 Phrases 5; Site of Special Scientific Interest: see scientific adj. 4b.
Compounds
C1. As a modifier with the sense ‘of or relating to a site, esp. a building site’, as in site inspection, site manager, site plan, site worker.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > employer or supervisor
Master of (the) Worksa1382
Clerk of the Works1663
master builder1714
general contractor1841
site manager1878
1878 Rep. Syst. training & educating Children of Poor 12 in Parl. Papers LX. 297 List of Plans... Plan of house ‘a’ on site plan.
1922 Factory Dec. 685/3 It is important that every..operating cost of a building project in relation to the site selection be borne in mind.
1961 Evening Standard 20 July 18/3 (advt.) Site Clerk required by..contractors.
1976 ‘R. Lewis’ Distant Banner iii. 85 The bosses had obviously been on the site manager's back.
1977 M. N. Rosenfeld in S. Kostof Architect 173 Louvois had six assistants who were called Commissioners and did site inspection.
1981 J. B. Hilton Playground of Death viii. 97 Three site foremen in succession suffered accidents.
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xxv. 284 A couple of site workers demolished mid-morning sausage sarnies.
C2. Computing. General use as a modifier (in sense 8b), as in site content, site link, site visitor, etc.
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1992 MacUser Nov. 260/1 You—and your site users—won't even know you're logged onto a PC.
1994 Macworld (Electronic ed.) Sept. 34 Netscape..is once again pushing the boundaries of the World Wide Web, offering site designers new ways to deliver in-line information and new tools with which to format Web pages.
1997 PC Mag. 10 June 70/2 Other options include posting ad banners, a company profile, and a site link.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 May (Central ed.) b4/6 Once live, Web pages are managed through a private control panel at Yahoo, which is where you check site traffic, customer e-mail and change service options.
2007 Sharp Edge June 45/2 Once into site content, ideally the sign-up feature should be in a consistent location throughout the site.
2019 MailOnline (Nexis) 12 June 7 A furious site user said she would ‘have a meltdown’ if the outage meant she lost out on an item she was after.
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site agent n. (a) an agent authorized to inspect, survey, and purchase land for development (rare); (b) (in the construction industry) a person responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of a construction project.
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1910 Traveling Expenses, Officers & Employees Treasury Dept. 9 (Table of Destination & Business) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (61st Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 221) CXXXII Virginia, Minn., site agent.
1933 Treasury & Post Office Departm. Appropriation Bill 1934 15 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (72nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Rep. 1787 I Site agents are inspecting sites for 107 projects.
1958 Internat. Prefabrication May 294/2 Planning that is done at site level is usually done by the site agent in his head.
1992 N. Fisher & S. L. Yin Information Managem. in Contractor iii. 107 It is most likely that surveyors and engineers are operationally responsible to the site agent or project manager.
2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 Apr. 20 The company..has been tasked with turning a one-time language school into a three-storey events space... Site agent Peter Weir will lead the project.
site assembly n. assembly of building components on site.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > manner of construction > specific
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superedification1610
superstructing1654
trabeation1831
post and petrail1867
post and tan1890
skeleton construction1891
flat-slab construction1906
unit construction1909
prefabrication1932
site assembly1941
sandwich construction1944
post and panel1954
prefabbing1954
post and beam1958
jettying1963
system building1964
biotecture1966
timber-framing1967
post and plaster1997
Passivhaus1998
1941 N.Y. Times 20 July re7/1 One of the most promising developments..is what builders call ‘site assembly’, a process by which factory production methods are utilized right on the ground.
1958 Listener 6 Nov. 726/2 The mechanization of building and rapid site-assembly of light-weight factory-produced components is a priority item in the current five-year plan.
2013 C. Wall Archit. of Parts viii. 135 The record on site assembly did not compare well with factory production.
site-directed adj. Molecular Biology designating a method for creating a mutation in a specific nucleic acid sequence; (also) designating an organism having such a mutation or the mutation itself.
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1974 R. A. Flavell et al. in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 89 255 (title) Site-directed mutagenesis: generation of an extracistronic mutation in bacteriophage Qβ RNA.
1989 BioFactors 2 14/1 Site-directed mutants of the EGF receptor have provided valuable information.
1993 National Acad. Keck Futures Initiative Genomic Revol. 30 In this case, researchers would also engineer site-directed mutations in potentially pandemic flu viruses..and evaluate how virulence and pathogenicity are affected.
2015 B. H. Lee Fund. Food Biotechnol. (ed. 2) ii. v. 327 Eventually site-directed mutagenesis will replace tedious traditional mutation procedures, but this technique requires recombinant DNA technology and also needs detailed knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the enzyme.
site-specific adj. specifically relating to, connected with, or affecting a particular location; (now frequently) spec. (of a work of art, drama, etc.) specially constructed or created to be displayed or performed at a particular location, typically one which is not within a conventional museum, gallery, theatre, etc.
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1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 July 48/1 There was a tendency for ulcers to occur with greater frequency in certain families... It was particularly interesting that the hereditary factors were site-specific.
1977 Washington Post 30 Oct. (Style section) l1/4 It was in the mid-1960s that Carl Andre and Robert Morris first talked about site-specific sculpture.
1978 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 75 5101/1 The λ genome is integrated into the bacterial chromosome through site-specific recombination.
1986 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. (Weekend section) c3/5 Enter the expression ‘site-specific’ in the theatrical lexicon. It is the equivalent of ‘on location’, with a play staged in a particular, nontheatrical environment.
1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 69/2 Slurry disposal in such volume is a site specific solution.
2015 Prospect Aug. 6/2 Over 10 years they have commissioned many large-scale, site-specific outdoor works of art.
site value n. the value of a site of land.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value of land or property
rack-rental1781
site value1865
land-value1880
prairie value1881
prairie rent1882
plottage1910
1865 Bradford Observer 2 Feb. 5/1 The valuation was based upon an estimate of building plans, which showed the annual site value at £226, which capitalised at 20 years' purchase gave £4,520.
1904 G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Munic. Trading x. 92 The popular remedy is to tax site values directly.
1941 H. Nicolson Diary 17 Mar. (1967) 152 It gives a magnificent vista of St Paul's... To get that permanently cleared is worth 40 million pounds in site-value.
1973 E. Page Fortnight by Sea vi. 67 Hunston's had been losing trade..had been glad to sell out in the end for the very considerable site value.
2005 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 11 Feb. 18 Land tax is calculated on the site value of a property, not its capital value.
site visit n. a visit made to a place by a person or group of people in an official capacity for the purpose of inspection or examination.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > formal or official > as visit
visitation1533
visit1787
site visit1948
1948 Monthly Labor Rev. Aug. 162/2 Site visits were..made to all the large projects and to the selected smaller projects to obtain the required information from builders and owners.
2014 C. Bisman Social Work ii. 14/1 These standards require institutional self-studies, site visits by a team of COA-trained educators.., and periodic program reviews.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
sitev.
/sʌɪt/, U.S. /saɪt/ 1. transitive. To put (something) in a certain place or position; to situate.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > situate
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situate?a1425
site?c1425
plant1558
seat1603
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?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 41 (MED) Þe mervaylouse nette is sytede [L. situatur] vnder the pannicles, wouen oonly wiþ arteries.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. xii. 174 For the Greeks sited [L. posuere] Byzance in the vtmost part of Europe, in a very narrow streight, which diuideth Europe from Asia.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. ii. 284/1 And Amianus Marcellinus siteth the Sacæ..to inhabit ouer-grown places..at the foote of the Mountaines Ascanimia and Comedus.
1920 Discovery Apr. 116/1 It is advisable to avoid siting a wireless station close to higher ground.
1955 Times 29 June 7/1 New proposals for siting Rodin's sculptured group of the Burghers of Calais.
2015 S. W. Albert Bittersweet 225 When I climbed the wooden tower, I saw that Sam had sited it so that it offered views in four directions.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)]
resteOE
standOE
sitOE
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1616 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) iii. 294 The lower Æthiope, siteth most Southerly of anie part of Afrique.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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