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Orient vs Adapt - What's the difference?

orient | adapt |

As a proper noun orient

is countries of asia, especially east asia.

As a noun orient

is a pear cultivar from the united states.

As a verb adapt is

to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.

As an adjective adapt is

adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

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

    Anagrams

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    adapt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
  • To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Related terms

    * adaptational * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adaptability * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptional * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptorial

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

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