orient
IPA: ˈɔriɛnt
noun
- Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”)
- The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
- (obsolete) A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.
- (by extension) The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
- Usually preceded by the: a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia).
- (dated) The countries east of the Mediterranean.
- A city and town in Illinois.
- A city and town in Iowa.
- A town in Maine.
- A census-designated place and hamlet in New York.
- A town and village in South Dakota.
- A pear cultivar from the United States
verb
- (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
- (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
- (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
- (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing.
- (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.
- (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group.
- (intransitive) To change direction to face a certain way.
adjective
- (dated, poetic, also figuratively) Rising, like the morning sun.
- (dated, poetic) Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.
- (obsolete except poetic) Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.
- (obsolete except poetic) Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.
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Examples of "orient" in Sentences
- The apse is oriented to the east.
- The family is of Puritan orientation.
- It gives the orientation of the plane.
- The orientation of the portal is different.
- To the Oriental, the Westerner was a devil.
- But the orientation of the coil is sideways.
- The Japanese are the Englishmen of the Orient.
- The Eastern lowlands in the Oriente experience an equatorial climate.
- Judaism is law oriented, tradition oriented, reverent of past usages.
- Orientalism refers to the Orient or East, in contrast to the Occident or West.
- BROWN: Just to help our viewers kind of orient themselves, you were on the 65th floor of a building that is how many stories?
- Google: one would have to compare the verb in an unabmbiguous phrase; "orient" without any qualification will mostly be the noun.
- American commentators continue to object to orientate (used more frequently by the British), mainly because orient is shorter but also because the figurative use is outstripping the literal one.
- And after Rabanus, these four be signified by the four parts of the world, by the orient, that is east, the apostles; by the south, the martyrs; by the north, the confessors; and by the west, the virgins.
- The committee, which visited reform schools, schools of industry and places of safety, said isolation cells were widely used as punishment, and were also used to "orient" new children at some institutions.
- “Delicious” is not a typical Korean family name, but I changed my name to protect the innocent from shame by association, and when it comes down to evidence of race, religion, ethnicity or sexual asianation some yellow folks are offended by "orient", it has nothing to do with my birth certificate.
- Such strong native sense had they, such innate refinement and courtesythe product, it used to be said, of plain living and high thinking -- that, ignorant as they might be of civic ways, they would, upon being introduced to them, need only a brief space of time to "orient" themselves to the new circumstances.
- In using concepts of his own to discredit the theoretic claims of concepts generally, Bergson does not contradict, but on the contrary emphatically illustrates his own view of their practical role, for they serve in his hands only to 'orient' us, to show us to what quarter we must _practically turn_ if we wish to gain that completer insight into reality which he denies that they can give.
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