Word Finder - orientate

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To face a given direction.

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To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).

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He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.

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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.

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To position (something), to align relative to a given position.

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Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.

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To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

It is enough to formulate a few general considerations of a kind to orientate and guide inquirers.

Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders (1892); and articles in the Revue orientate pour les etudes Ouralaltaiques.

This view is confirmed by the evidence of the Synodicon Orientate (the collection of the canons of Nestorian Councils and Synods), which shows that the Great Syriac Church built up by the adherents of Nestorius and ever memorable for its zeal in carrying the Gospel into Central Asia, China and India cannot, from its inception, be rightly described as other than orthodox.

This flowage will help to orientate the particles in the direction of movement, and, operating conjointly with the flattening above explained,will accentuate the liability to cleave in a definite set of planes.

In regard to the Constantza inscriptions in general, see Allard, La Bulgarie orientate (Paris, 1866); Desjardins in Ann.

With the extension of Christianity to the Gentile world it at length became necessary for it to orientate itself towards what was best in Greek culture.

He published several Latin translations of Arabic works, of which the most important was the Chronicon Orientate of Ibnar-Rahib (Paris, 16J3), a history of the patriarchs of Alexandria.

Generally if any group be replaced by another group, then the second group enters the nucleus in the position occupied by the displaced group; this means that if we can definitely orientate three di-derivatives of benzene, then any other compound, which can be obtained from or converted into one of our typical derivatives, may be definitely orientated.