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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: determine one's position with reference to another point; "We had to orient ourselves in the forest" [syn: orient, orientate] [ant: disorient, disorientate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-tated; -tating) Date: 1848 intransitive verb to face or turn to the east transitive verb orient

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. = ORIENT v. Etymology: prob. back-form. f. ORIENTATION

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Orientate O"ri*en*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orientated; p. pr. & vb. n. Orientating.] [From Orient.] 1. To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward. 2. 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. A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry. --E. S. Dana.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Orientate O"ri*en*tate, v. i. To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see orient