From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishoriento‧ri‧ent1 /ˈɔːrient, ˈɒri- $ ˈɔː-/ ●○○ AWL (also orientate British English) verb 1 → be oriented to/towards/around something/somebody2 → orient yourself→ See Verb table
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orient• Single conspicuous targets in the half-field contralateral to the lesion could elicit fixations, implying detection and orienting by a subcortical system.• He has trouble orienting himself to any written work.• Humankind needed to orient itself Continually by Signs, or by an address.• Scheler's phenomenology was based on a metaphysical hierarchy of values orienting the human being.• In any case, orienting the piece on the table also takes time.• Viewers were told how to orient their satellite dishes to best receive broadcasts.• In people, all it does is orient them toward the bottom line.• First I checked the lone pines, by orienting them with respect to the sun.• That most men orient themselves more as subjects than as citizens is a familiar theme.• The climbers stopped to orient themselves.oriento‧ri‧ent2 /ˈɔːriənt, ˈɒri- $ ˈɔː-/ noun → the Orient → the East at east1, OccidentExamples from the Corpus
orient• The orient has three species of tarsiers.Orient, thethe OrientOrient, the old use the eastern part of the world; Asia → compare OccidentOrigin orient1 (1700-1800) French orienter, from Old French orient; → ORIENT2 orient2 (1300-1400) Old French Latin, present participle of oriri “to rise” 