colonise vs locate

colonise and locate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colonise	No	No	Yes	No
locate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, locate is a hypernym of colonise; that is, locate is a word with a broader meaning than colonise:

Other hypernyms of colonise include settle.

colonise (verb)	locate (verb)
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)	take up residence and become established
settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world	discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
	assign a location to
	determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey