site

Meanings

Noun

• Sorrow, grief.
• The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
• A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
• The posture or position of a thing.
• A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
• A website.
• A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
• Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
• A part of the body which has been operated on.

Verb

• To situate or place a building.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• building site
• camping site
• campsite
• construction site
• customer site
• jobsite
• worksite
• landfill site

Origin

• Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).
• From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs ("position, place, site"), from sinere. situs.