Orient | |
1. n. A pear cultivar from the United States | |
2. v. To familiarize with a situation or circumstance. | |
Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy. | |
3. v. (transitive, figurative) To set the focus of so as to relate or appeal to a certain group. | |
We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested. | |
4. v. To point at or direct towards. | |
I will orient all of the signs to face the road. | |
5. v. To determine which direction one is facing. | |
Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way. | |
6. v. To place or build so as to face eastward. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To change direction so as to face east. | |
8. v. (by extension) To change direction to face a certain way. | |
9. v. To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; | |
10. v. (surveying) specifically, to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corr | |
11. n. alternative case form of Orient | |
12. n. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A pearl of orient. | |
14. adj. (obsolete, poetic) Rising, like the sun. | |
15. adj. eastern; oriental | |
16. adj. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. | |