ORIENTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orientate mean? 

• ORIENTATE (verb)
  The verb ORIENTATE has 1 sense:

1. determine one's position with reference to another point

  Familiarity information: ORIENTATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIENTATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they orientate    ... he / she / it orientates   
Past simple: orientated   
Past participle: orientated   
-ing form: orientating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine one's position with reference to another point

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

orient; orientate

Context example:

We had to orient ourselves in the forest

Hypernyms (to "orientate" is one way to...):

decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "orientate"):

guide; guide on (use as a guide)

reorient; reorientate (orient once again, after a disorientation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

He was just beginning to orientate himself and to feel that he was not wholly an intruder.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This body plan has spatial references, or axes, that guide the emergence of tissues and organs: an antero-posterior axis defined by the head at one end and the tail at the other, an orthogonal dorso-ventral axis and a medio-lateral axis, which orientates the arrangement of internal organs like the liver, pancreas or the heart.

(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)