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Introduce vs Orient - What's the difference?

introduce | orient |

As a verb introduce

is (of people) to cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).

As a proper noun orient is

countries of asia, especially east asia.

As a noun orient is

a pear cultivar from the united states.

introduce

English

Verb

(introduc)
  • (of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
  • To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
  • To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
  • To bring (something) into practice.
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    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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