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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry.
--E. S. Dana. Same as orient[2].
Orientate \O"ri*en*tate\, v. i. To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1849, back-formation from orientation. Related: Orientated; orientating.
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 to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves. 4 (context UK transitive English) To position (something), to align relative to a given position. 5 (context archaic English) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Orientate (foaled March 29, 1999 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2002 Breeder's Cup Sprint and was voted the U.S. Champion Sprint Horse of 2002.
A descendant of the great Nearco through his son Royal Charger, Orientate was bred by Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. and raced by Bob & Beverly Lewis. He was sired by American multiple stakes winner Mt. Livermore and out of the Cox's Ridge mare, Dream Team.
Trained by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee D. Wayne Lukas, Orientate retired from racing having won ten of his nineteen starts with earnings of US$1,716,950.
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.