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orientate

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒɹi.ənteɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeeinorttStarts with OEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From orient + -ate or a back-formation from orientation. Compare French orienter and Italian orientare.

Used in a sentence

  • He[…]stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.
  • He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.
  • The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.

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