site
Other forms: sites; sited
A site is a location. The leader of a Zombie Army might remind his underlings: “Your web site is just a collection of pages at one address on the Web. Your burial site is where you find more soldiers!”
Site can also refer to a specific parcel of land, such as a building site or a burial site. Although a website has no physical location, it does have a virtual one, which is reached the same way a physical location is: by going to an address.
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the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)“a good site for the school”synonyms: land siteexamples:ground zerothe site of the World Trade Center before it was destroyedLateranthe site in Rome containing the church of Rome and the Lateran Palacetypes:camp, summer campa site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer monthsapron(golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the greenbomb sitean area in a town that has been devastated by bombsbivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampmenta site where people can pitch a tentburial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park, necropolisa tract of land used for burialsdump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyarda piece of land where waste materials are dumpedfairwaythe area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut shortgreen, putting green, putting surfacean area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf courselaunching sitea place for launching padsmonumentan important site that is marked and preserved as public propertypremisesland and the buildings on itroughthe part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut shortSuperfund site, toxic site, toxic waste areaa site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned upday campa camp providing care and activities for children during the daytimeeitchen midden, kitchen midden, midden(archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlementgarbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, trash pilean accumulation of refuse and discarded mattertoxic dumpsite, toxic waste dump, toxic waste sitea location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally)market crossa cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conductedpotter's fielda cemetery for unknown or indigent peopleorphan sitea toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanuptype of:
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physical position in relation to the surroundings“the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides”synonyms: situationtypes:active sitethe part of an enzyme or antibody where the chemical reaction occursclose quartersa situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or somethinglocusthe specific site of a particular gene on its chromosomelocus of infectionthe specific site in the body where an infection originatesrestriction sitethe specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNAantigenic determinant, determinant, epitopethe site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
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a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web“the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers”synonyms: internet site, web site, websitetypes:type of:computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing systema machine for performing calculations automatically
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Vocabulary lists containing site
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently (a type of homonym) can be stumbling blocks in comprehension or when trying to communicate something in writing. If you know that there's "peek" "peak" and "pique," which one do you use to describe what your character did at the window? If you use the wrong one, then your character has reached the heights (peak) or is having a fit if anger (pique) by the window. Is that what you mean? Is the character simply looking through that window (peek)? As you can see, all these words sound the same but suggest very different things. Here are 32 vocabulary words that are often confused.
In this comic adventure, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a juvenile detention center where the inmates spend their days digging mysterious holes. But what on earth are they looking for?
Learn the correct meanings and usages of these commonly confused words for eleventh- and twelfth-grade students.