What is the difference between direction and orient?
direction | orient |
The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
Guidance, instruction.
The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
(archaic) An address.
* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.
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* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
To familiarize with a situation or circumstance.
To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group.
To point at or direct towards.
To determine which direction one is facing.
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.
(Orient)
The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) A pearl of orient.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 120:
(obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun.
* Milton
eastern; oriental
* Hakluyt
Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Wordsworth
* Milton
As nouns the difference between direction and orient
is that direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards while orient is alternative case form of Orient.As a verb orient is
to familiarize with a situation or circumstance.As an adjective orient is
rising, like the sun.As a proper noun Orient is
countries of Asia, especially East Asia.direction
English
(wikipedia direction)Noun
(en noun)Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction .
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction .
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Verb
(en verb)- Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
- We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.
- I will orient all of the signs to face the road.
- Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
Synonyms
* orientate (UK)Derived terms
() * orientate (UK) * orientation * orienteerNoun
(en noun)- [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.
- 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
(-)- Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun
- the orient part
- pearls round and orient
- orient gems
- orient liquor in a crystal glass