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Get one's bearings
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orientate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orientate \O"ri*en*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orientated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Orientating .] [From Orient .] To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward. To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A lot of the younger officers tended to be very career orientated, and far heavier and aggressive. ▪ Both Gournia and Kato Zakros, a palace on the eastern tip of the island, contain courtyards orientated towards the mountains. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. determine one's position with reference to another point [syn: orient ] [ant: disorient ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context UK intransitive English) To face (a given direction). 2 (context UK reflexive English) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself). 3 To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation ...
Usage examples of orientate.
Unable to orientate himself with respect to the now unseeable blister layout, he sat down on the floor.
The Zanthus crew put a lot of stock in orientating themselves to a universal visual horizon.
As we have seen, it is the centrically orientated gravity-field which gives the ball its permanency of shape.
While attempts should be made to foster a casual dorm environment there should also be a system of very definate rules built around a structured goal orientated program.
Sto preparando una tesi da sottoporre al Consiglio, per raccomandare di Mutare la Realtà in modo da eliminare tutte le epoche orientate sul volo spaziale, come comune linea d'azione.
Correctly shaped and orientated, with the proper paracosmic measurements correctly plumbed in, the temporal potential of the great mass of stone can be diverted to accelerate or reverse time over a very small area, in the same way that a hydraulic ram can be induced to pump water against the flow.
He composed the next bit of his story in his mind, which was going to be something about the tank needing to be orientated along a line dropped perpendicularly from the Pole Star to a baseline drawn between Mars and Venus, and was about to start trying to say it when he decided to give it a miss.
Outside pressure from Primary schools and colleges whose pupils attended the Centre meant lessons had to be orientated towards future examinations, but the tutors' main purpose was still to make the children more ecologically aware.