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Aspect vs Orient - What's the difference?

aspect | orient |

As nouns the difference between aspect and orient

is that aspect is the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective while orient is a pear cultivar from the united states.

As a proper noun orient is

countries of asia, especially east asia.

aspect

English

(wikipedia aspect)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something
  • One's appearance or expression.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Dryden)
    • serious in aspect
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect .}}
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 145:
    • It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
  • Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
  • Prospect; outlook.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Evelyn)
    • This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
  • (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
  • (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
    • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Francis Bacon)
    • The basilisk killeth by aspect .
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Walter Scott)
    • His aspect was bent on the ground.
  • (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Thomas Burnet)
    • the true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • the aspect of affairs
  • (computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.

    • Synonyms

    * (visual expression) blee, appearance, look

    Hyponyms

    (Grammatical aspect) * (grammar) aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect

    Derived terms

    * aspect ratio * aspectual

    orient

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.
    • Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
  • To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.
    • We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.
  • To point at or direct towards.
    • I will orient all of the signs to face the road.
  • To determine which direction one is facing.
    • Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
  • To place or build so as to face eastward.
  • To change direction so as to face east.
  • (by extension) To change direction to face a certain way.

    • Synonyms

    * orientate (UK)

    Derived terms

    () * orientate (UK) * orientation * orienteer

    Related terms

    () * origin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Orient)
  • The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
  • * Tennyson
    • [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
  • (obsolete) A pearl of orient.
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 120:
    • Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients .
    (Carlyle)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
  • * Milton
    • Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun
  • eastern; oriental
  • * Hakluyt
    • the orient part
  • Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • pearls round and orient
  • * Wordsworth
    • orient gems
  • * Milton
    • orient liquor in a crystal glass

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