What's the difference between finder and locate?

Finder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Spinal Pedicle Finder (S.P.F) has been designed for transpedicular screws and a prototype has been completed.
  • (2) The Cytoscan 110 metaphase finder has been tested with cultures of human peripheral blood lymphocytes prior to its introduction into routine use for the analysis of radiation-induced chromosomal damage.
  • (3) The technique uses a finder needle and a saline-filled syringe to locate the small and poorly defined trachea.
  • (4) Now some agents are taking the process a step further with "sale by informal tender" contracts for buyers who make sealed bids – the contracts commit the successful buyer to paying an introductory or finder's fee to the agent, usually around 2-2.5% of the cost of the property.
  • (5) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
  • (6) • S Finder is the phone's search engine, to find chat messages, documents or other content on the phone.
  • (7) Subjectivity in selecting random grid squares for routine quantitative analysis can be circumvented through a combination of finder grids and a computer program.
  • (8) However, it is also possible that flock formation is neutral or even beneficial to the individual members, including the bird that found the fish (the 'first finder').
  • (9) Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of buying agents Garrington Property Finders, said the brisk pace in June was likely to be the high water mark for the property market for some time.
  • (10) This has information on different sources of funding and a "Finance Finder" tool to see which schemes you might qualify for.
  • (11) Two cones could only be bypassed by the Canal-Finder-System but were not removed with any of the techniques investigated in this study.
  • (12) Ralph: Well, I've been working on my profile on Adult Friend Finder.
  • (13) The need for radiologic control during surgery is emphasized although, as demonstrated in the present review, the technique of localization by a cath-finder (external detector) permits greater speed with the same security.
  • (14) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
  • (15) "This decision makes it clear that the rule of finders keepers is not the law in New York."
  • (16) Faulks, who is married to former Conservative justice minister Edward Faulks, claimed the protesters were not people affected by the disaster, adding: “The people that stormed the council weren’t the local community, they’re people who like doing that sort of thing and I think they did a disservice to the local community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grenfell Tower protesters storm Kensington town hall – video report Faulks also works as a “property finder” for Vivien Thompson Property Search, which looks for properties to buy for customers who do not have time to search.
  • (17) Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired a 50% stake in Globrix , the property finder search engine, months after News International sold its half share in the operation back to the founders .
  • (18) Future space telescopes, such as Nasa's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder , have been designed to confirm whether alien worlds are suitable for life.
  • (19) The 60-year-old married father of two from Langport, Somerset, is serving 10 years in jail following a scam that included the sale of £55m-worth of devices based on a novelty golf ball finder to Iraq, Niger, Syria, Mexico and other countries including Lebanon where a United Nations agency was a client.
  • (20) Of the remaining 39 cones, 19 were removed after using the Canal-Finder-System.

Locate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
  • (v. t.) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
  • (v. i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (2) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
  • (3) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
  • (4) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (5) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (6) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
  • (7) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (8) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (9) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
  • (10) On the basis of primary sequence homology with other known Pseudomonas lipases, a number of putative active site residues located in conserved areas were found.
  • (11) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
  • (12) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (13) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
  • (14) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
  • (15) The gene, which is located at chromosome XIII, is transcribed as a mRNA of about 2.7 kilobases, and the amount of message has been found to increase 3- to 4-fold during the culture.
  • (16) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
  • (17) The hypothalamic VIP mRNA was located mainly in the SCN.
  • (18) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
  • (19) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
  • (20) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.