Word Finder - orients

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The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

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A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.

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(by extension) The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.

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To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.

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(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) 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.

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• orientate

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To direct towards or point at a particular direction.

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The workers oriented all the signs to face the road.

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• orientate

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To determine which direction one is facing.

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Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.

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To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.

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Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.

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• orientate

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To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group.

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We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.

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To change direction to face a certain way.

A still more extended an elaborate monograph than either of the preceding followed in 1822, Der Heilige Johannes Chrysostomus and die Kirche, besonders des Orients in dessen Zeitalter, and again, in 1824, another on Tertullian (Antignostikus).

Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des alten Orients, p. 278, adopts Marquart's view that the "River" (nahar) is the socalled "River" (better "Ravine" nahal) of Egypt or Musri, on the southern frontier of Judea.

Orients 2nd ed., p. 492 seq.

Orients, p. 302 seq.; Records of the Past, ii.

In 1821 appeared his first work, Sufismus, sive theosophia Persarum pantheistica; following the same line of study he published Bliitensammlung aus der morgenlandischen Mystik (1825) and Speculative Trinitiitslehre des speiteren Orients (1826).

A tablet copied by George Smith gives us interesting details as to the plan and dimensions of this famous temple of Bel; a plan based on these will be found in Hommel's Grundriss der Geographie and Geschichte des alten Orients, p. 321.

It is perhaps even more noteworthy that figures thought to be cherubs have been found at Zenjirli, within the ancient North Syrian kingdom of Ya'di (see Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, pp. 350 f.); we may combine this with the fact that one of the great gods of this kingdom was called Rakab'el or Rekub'el (also perhaps Rakab or Rekub).