Synonyms:
set, localize, localise, place
Meaning: locate; "The film is set in Africa"
Synonyms:
localize, localise
Meaning: restrict something to a particular area
Synonyms:
localize, localise, focalize, focalise
Meaning: concentrate on a particular place or spot; "The infection has localized in the left eye"
Synonyms:
place, localize, localise
Meaning: identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection"
Usage examples
I hope you will not consider the expression too anthropomorphically, and picture the dream censor as a severe little manikin who lives in a little brain chamber and there performs his duties; nor should you attempt to localize him too much, to think of a brain center from which his censoring influence emanates, and which would cease with the injury or extirpation of this center.