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| driveway |
a private road that leads from a street to a building such as a house or garage. |
| garage |
A garage is a building where cars, trucks, or buses are kept. Some garages are attached to a house and are used by one family, but some garages hold many cars and are used by many different people. Sometimes people pay money to park their car in a large garage. [2 definitions] |
| locate |
When you locate something in a particular place, it means you decide to put it in that place. If you locate your drum set in the garage, it means that you've picked the garage as the place to put and keep your drums. [1/2 definitions] |
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