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Orient vs Orientated - What's the difference?

orient | orientated |

As verbs the difference between orient and orientated

is that orient is to familiarize with a situation or circumstance while orientated is past tense of orientate.

As a noun orient

is alternative case form of Orient.

As an adjective orient

is rising, like the sun.

As a proper noun Orient

is countries of Asia, especially East Asia.

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

    * ----

    orientated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (orientate)

    • Anagrams

    *

    orientate

    English

    Verb

    (orientat)
  • (UK) To face (a given direction).
  • (UK, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
  • *
    • He…stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.
    He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.
  • 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.
  • * E. S. Dana
    • A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry.
  • (UK) To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
    • Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.
  • (archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

    • Usage notes

    * Generally considered an error in American English. orientate], in [http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html Common Errors in English Usage], by [http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/ Paul Brians Compare developmentation.

    Synonyms

    * to orient

    References

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