site

1. N-COUNT : oft n N

A site is a piece of ground that is used for a particular purpose or where a particular thing happens: He became a hod carrier on a building site. a bat sanctuary with special nesting sites.

2. N-COUNT : usu the N of n

The site of an important event is the place where it happened: Scientists have described the Aral sea as the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth.

3. N-COUNT

A site is a piece of ground where something such as a statue or building stands or used to stand.

5. VERB : usu passive

If something is sited in a particular place or position, it is put there or built there: He said chemical weapons had never been sited in Germany. a damp, old castle, romantically sited on a river estuary. controls on the siting of gas storage vessels.