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Arrange vs Situate - What's the difference?

arrange | situate | Related terms |

Arrange is a related term of situate.


As adjectives the difference between arrange and situate

is that arrange is organized, neat while situate is situated.

As verbs the difference between arrange and situate

is that arrange is while situate is to place on or into a physical location most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.

arrange

English

Verb

(arrang)
  • To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To put in order, to organize.
  • To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
  • (label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * arrangement

    situate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scituate

    Verb

    (situat)
  • To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.
  • The statue is situated''' in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area '''situated behind the building.
  • To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
  • The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated.
  • * , II.ii.3:
  • Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
  • * Milton
  • Pleasure situate in hill and dale.