orientate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from orientation.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒɹi.ənteɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb[edit]
orientate (third-person singular simple present orientates, present participle orientating, simple past and past participle orientated)
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, intransitive) To face a given direction.
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
- 1961, John le Carré, Call for the Dead:
- 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.
- 1848, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Mineralogy:
- The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, transitive) 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[edit]
- Generally considered an error in American English.[1] Compare developmentation.
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Translations[edit]
face a certain direction
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Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
orientate
- inflection of orientare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
orientate f pl
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
orientate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of orientar combined with te
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