orientate

IPA: ɔriɛnteɪt

(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, intransitive) To face a given direction.
(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
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.
(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, transitive) To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
(archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

Examples of "orientate" in Sentences

Orient (v) and orientate (v) are all but interchangeable.
In the thick fog, only sounds helped him orientate himself.
Plant leaves and stems orientate themselves towards the light.
Start with your idea or premise and keep it by you on a sticky note to orientate yourself.
"At that point, I sort of was just trying to come around and kind of orientate myself to what was going on," Arias explained.
Since then orientate has been used by writers such as Aldous Huxley, Margaret Mead, [...] ‘Not a word’ is not an argument « Sentence first says:
In most cases, though, this slight differentiation seems likely to be increasingly eroded, if the development of orient and orientate is anything to go by.
Since then, orientate has been used by writers such as Aldous Huxley, Margaret Mead, Tennessee Williams, and Randolph Quirk, but this has not stopped it from being criticised.
Some decades ago, Eric Partridge noted in Usage and Abusage that orientate is correct as an intransitive (“to face in a particular direction”), but that orient is preferable in all other senses.
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.