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Orienteer vs Orientation - What's the difference?

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Orientation is a related term of orienteer.



As nouns the difference between orienteer and orientation

is that orienteer is someone who takes part in the sport of orienteering while orientation is the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

As a verb orienteer

is to race across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass.

orienteer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (sports) Someone who takes part in the sport of orienteering.
  • She is an expert orienteer .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (sports) to race across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass
  • She travels worldwide to orienteer .

    orientation

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
  • (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
  • (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end
  • (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction
  • (countable) The ability to orient
  • (countable) An adjustment to a new environment
  • (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
  • (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
  • (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space
  • Antonyms

    * disorientation

    Derived terms

    * orientational * orientation course * reorientation * sexual orientation