orientate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From orient + -ate[1] or a back-formation from orientation.[2]
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, Commonwealth, intransitive) To face a given direction.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, 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, Commonwealth, 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.[3] Compare developmentation.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to face a given direction — see also orient
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to determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself) — see orient
References
[edit]- ^ “orientate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “orientate (v.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Paul Brians (2009) “orientate”, in Common Errors in English Usage, 2nd edition, Wilsonville, Or.: William, James & Company, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]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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