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4-letter words (3 found)

SITE,STIE,TIES,

3-letter words (8 found)

EST,ITS,SEI,SET,SIT,TES,TIE,TIS,

2-letter words (8 found)

ES,ET,IS,IT,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 20 words from site according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of site

site iste stie tsie itse tise siet iset seit esit iest eist stei tsei seti esti tesi etsi ites ties iets eits teis etis

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word site. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in site.

Definitions and meaning of site

site

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sīt, IPA(key): /saɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • Homophones: cite, sight

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).

Noun

site (plural sites)

  1. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
    • a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5
      Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow & site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.

Etymology 2

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of situs.

Noun

site (plural sites)

  1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
    • 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,
      A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
    • 1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England. The Second Edition, with large Additions and Corrections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,
      However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
  2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
    • 1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions, R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208
      Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
  3. The posture or position of a thing.
    • 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,
      And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
  4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
    • 1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, p. 208,
      If the site is forced to send a message against its will, […],we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.
  5. A website.
    • 1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi,
      [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
  6. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
  7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
  8. A part of the body which has been operated on.
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Verb

site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)

  1. To situate or place a building or construction project.
    • 1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,
      For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.

Further reading

  • site on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “site”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “site”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “site”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, TISE, ties

Aiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *taci (“younger sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta-huaji, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

Noun

site

  1. her sister

References

  • Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Chuukese

Etymology

si- +‎ -te

Pronoun

site

  1. we (inclusive) will never
  2. so we (inclusive) do not

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English site.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑi̯t/
  • Hyphenation: site

Noun

site m (plural sites, diminutive siteje n)

  1. web site
    Synonyms: website, webstek
  2. archaeological site
    Synonym: opgraving
  3. (uncommon) construction site
    Synonym: bouwplaats

Derived terms

  • advertentiesite
  • datingsite
  • gamesite
  • goksite
  • internetsite
  • nieuwssite
  • sekssite
  • pornosite
  • vacaturesite
  • veilingsite

French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sit/
  • Homophones: cite, citent, cites, scythe, Scythe, scythes, Scythes, sites

Noun

site m (plural sites)

  1. site
  2. (Internet) website

Derived terms

  • site de rencontres
  • site web
  • site Internet
  • site perso

Further reading

  • “site”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.te/
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Hyphenation: sì‧te

Adjective

site f pl

  1. feminine plural of sito

Anagrams

  • -esti, -iste, seti, stie, tesi

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʰi˥.te˧/

Adjective

site

  1. bad

Synonyms

  • hawi-yte

Derived terms

  • bälungsite

References

  • R. Shafer (1944) “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, number 2, page 429
  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎[5], Payap University, page 50

Latin

Participle

site

  1. vocative masculine singular of situs

Middle English

Noun

site

  1. Alternative form of cite

Neapolitan

Verb

site

  1. second-person plural present indicative of èssere

Old French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Noun

site oblique singular, m (oblique plural sites, nominative singular sites, nominative plural site)

  1. site; location

Descendants

  • → English: site
    • French: site

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (site)
  • sit on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

site

  1. locative singular of sita (“smile”)

Adjective

site

  1. inflection of sita (“white”):
    1. locative singular masculine/neuter
    2. vocative singular feminine
    3. accusative plural masculine
  2. locative singular masculine/neuter and vocative singular feminine and accusative plural masculine of sita (“bound”), which is past participle of sinoti (“to bind”)
  3. inflection of sita (“clinging to”):
    1. locative singular masculine/neuter
    2. vocative singular feminine
    3. accusative plural masculine
  4. inflection of sita (“sharp”):
    1. locative singular masculine/neuter
    2. vocative singular feminine
    3. accusative plural masculine

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • saite (Brazil)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English site.

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: saite

Noun

site m (plural sites)

  1. site; web site (a collection of pages on the World Wide Web)
    Synonyms: (prescribed) sítio, website, web site

Usage notes

In Portugal, either the unadapted form site or the prescribed sítio are used. In Brazil, the form saite based on pronunciation spelling is also used.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:site.

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • sit
  • sait — neologism

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English site.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsajt/

Noun

site n (plural site-uri)

  1. (Internet) website

Declension

Derived terms

  • site web

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

site

  1. inflection of sit:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

site

  1. locative singular of sito

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [siˈte]
  • Hyphenation: si‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French cité.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

  1. gated community
  2. housing estate
  3. city
Declension

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

  1. (Internet) Web site
Declension
Derived terms
  • Web sitesi

Source: wiktionary.org