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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orient
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
London–Gatwick Express/Orient Express (=a fast train or bus which does a particular journey regularly)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The climbers stopped to orient themselves.
▪ Viewers were told how to orient their satellite dishes to best receive broadcasts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First I checked the lone pines, by orienting them with respect to the sun.
▪ He has trouble orienting himself to any written work.
▪ Humankind needed to orient itself Continually by Signs, or by an address.
▪ In any case, orienting the piece on the table also takes time.
▪ In people, all it does is orient them toward the bottom line.
▪ Scheler's phenomenology was based on a metaphysical hierarchy of values orienting the human being.
▪ Single conspicuous targets in the half-field contralateral to the lesion could elicit fixations, implying detection and orienting by a subcortical system.
▪ That most men orient themselves more as subjects than as citizens is a familiar theme.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The orient has three species of tarsiers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orient

Orient \O"ri*ent\ ([=o]"r[i^]*[e^]nt), v. t. [F. orienter. Cf. Orientate.]

  1. To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.

  2. Hence: To acquaint with new surroundings or a new situation.

  3. Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.

  4. Same as Orientate, 2.

  5. To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; specif. (Surv.), to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.

Orient

Orient \O"ri*ent\ ([=o]"r[i^]*ent), a. [F., fr. L. oriens, -entis, p. pr. of oriri to rise. See Origin.]

  1. Rising, as the sun.

    Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun.
    --Milton.

  2. Eastern; oriental. ``The orient part.''
    --Hakluyt.

  3. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. ``Pearls round and orient.''
    --Jer. Taylor. ``Orient gems.''
    --Wordsworth. ``Orient liquor in a crystal glass.''
    --Milton.

Orient

Orient \O"ri*ent\, n.

  1. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

    [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
    --Tennyson.

  2. The countries of Asia or the East.
    --Chaucer.

    Best built city throughout the Orient.
    --Sir T. Herbert.

  3. A pearl of great luster. [R.]
    --Carlyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Orient

c.1300, "the East" (originally usually meaning what is now called the Middle East), from Old French orient "east" (11c.), from Latin orientem (nominative oriens) "the rising sun, the east, part of the sky where the sun rises," originally "rising" (adj.), present participle of oriri "to rise" (see orchestra). The Orient Express was a train that ran from Paris to Istanbul via Vienna 1883-1961, from the start associated with espionage and intrigue.

orient

c.1727, originally "to arrange facing east," from French s'orienter "to take one's bearings," literally "to face the east" (also the source of German orientierung), from Old French orient "east," from Latin orientum (see Orient (n.)). Extended meaning "determine bearings" first attested 1842; figurative sense is from 1850. Related: Oriented; orienting.

Wiktionary
orient
  1. 1 (context obsolete poetic English) Rising, like the sun. 2 eastern; oriental 3 Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. n. 1 (alternative case form of Orient English) (from 14th c.) 2 The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. 3 (context obsolete English) A pearl of orient. (19th c.) v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To familiarize with a situation or circumstance. 2 (context transitive figurative English) To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group. 3 (context transitive English) To point at or direct towards. 4 (context transitive English) To determine which direction one is facing. 5 (context transitive English) To place or build so as to face eastward. 6 (context intransitive English) To change direction so as to face east. 7 (context by extension English) To change direction to face a certain way. 8 (cx transitive English) To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, et

  3. , lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; (cx surveying English) specifically, to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.

WordNet
orient

adj. (poetic) eastern; "the orient sun"

Gazetteer
Orient, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 709
Housing Units (2000): 673
Land area (2000): 5.092565 sq. miles (13.189682 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.025585 sq. miles (2.656254 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.118150 sq. miles (15.845936 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55321
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.145410 N, 72.288689 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11957
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Orient, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 269
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.124061 sq. miles (0.321317 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.124061 sq. miles (0.321317 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58800
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.804906 N, 83.154567 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43146
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Orient, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 296
Housing Units (2000): 147
Land area (2000): 0.750009 sq. miles (1.942515 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005603 sq. miles (0.014511 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.755612 sq. miles (1.957026 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56536
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.918839 N, 88.975973 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Orient, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 402
Housing Units (2000): 179
Land area (2000): 0.465587 sq. miles (1.205864 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.465587 sq. miles (1.205864 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59565
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.202702 N, 94.418794 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50858
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Orient, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 57
Housing Units (2000): 38
Land area (2000): 0.311181 sq. miles (0.805954 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000153 sq. miles (0.000395 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.311334 sq. miles (0.806349 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47460
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.901922 N, 99.088595 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57467
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Orient

The Orient means the East. It is a traditional (and archaic) designation for anything that belongs to the Eastern world, such as the Middle East ( Near East) or the Far East, in relation to Europe. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the continent of Asia. In France and other countries of Western Europe, it also denominates the countries of North Africa.

Orient (disambiguation)

Orient is Latin for "east"

The Orient is usually an archaic term for Asia.

Orient may also refer to:

Orient (album)

Orient is a live album by jazz/world music musician Don Cherry recorded in 1971 and released on the BYG label in Japan in 1974, originally untitled. When reissued in the UK by Affinity Records in 1980, it was issued with the title "Orient." Later reissues have continued to use the same title.

Orient (film)

Orient'' (German title:Frauenraub in Marokko'') is a 1928 German silent film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Dolly Davis, Vladimir Gajdarov and Claire Rommer.

The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

Usage examples of "orient".

The point is that even if it does not survive as it once did, Orientalism lives on academically through its doctrines and theses about the Orient and the Oriental.

Here is where Balfour in 1910 could find the first adumbration of his claim as an Englishman to know the Orient more and better than anyone else.

I think, by way of the entire nineteenth-century tradition of the Orient as therapeutic for the West, a tradition whose earliest adumbration is to be found in Quinet.

Roman era my task consisted of stifling the revolt in Judaea and bringing back from the Orient, without too great loss, an ailing army.

Seville and the galleon with the riches of the Orient from Manila, my amigos and I made sure we got some small piece of the riches.

The cotyledons emerged and chloroplasts oriented themselves to the light.

He took a quick look around to orient himself, then turned immediately to face the central column where she was housed, a nicety that only Carl and Chria had observed.

Not in the yesterdays of that still life Which I have passed so free and far from strife, But somewhere in this weary world I know, In some strange land, beneath some orient clime, I saw or shared a martyrdom sublime, And felt a deeper grief than any later woe.

It is primarily a report to the public on the important role that cryptology has played, but it may also orient cryptology with regard to its past and alert historians to the sub rosa influence of cryptanalysis.

When it does so, it will be emitted along the white line, which tells you how the disk will be oriented.

There did nevertheless appear throughout the Orient a ware of common clay over which a simple covering of white had been painted, and this slip or engobe of white gave to the variety the name of Oriental Engobe.

Tamar cut a piece of thread and threaded her needle, and Erdene helped her orient her pieces to put them together properly.

Between them and the vision, between the fecund San Joaquin, reeking with fruitfulness, and the millions of Asia crowding toward the verge of starvation, lay the iron-hearted monster of steel and steam, implacable, insatiable, huge--its entrails gorged with the life blood that it sucked from an entire commonwealth, its ever hungry maw glutted with the harvests that should have fed the famished bellies of the whole world of the Orient.

The boundary notion of East and West, the varying degrees of projected inferiority and strength, the range of work done, the kinds of characteristic features ascribed to the Orient: all these testify to a willed imaginative and geographic division made between East and West, and lived through during many centuries.

He went through his hard wares and introduced them to scents purportedly from the Orient and fragrant soaps of which Hatti coyly selected several, asking her mistress if she desired any of these heady stuffs.