Situate vs Orient - What's the difference?
situate | orient |
To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.
To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
Situated.
* , II.ii.3:
* Milton
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 a verb situate
is to place on or into a physical location most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.As an adjective situate
is situated.As a proper noun orient is
countries of asia, especially east asia.As a noun orient is
a pear cultivar from the united states.situate
English
Alternative forms
* scituateVerb
(situat)- The statue is situated''' in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area '''situated behind the building.
- The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
- Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
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* * * ----orient
English
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
