orientate
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“It’s an actual piece of physical feedback you can get to help orientate yourself,” says Calahan Young, who is headed to his second Paralympics with the U.S. team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
Their horizons have no landmarks to hang on to: nothing to orientate yourself toward.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
According to the Elysée palace, President Macron has "made the choice to orientate this visit towards the future… and lay down the basis for a relaunching of the relationship".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2022
To begin the procedure, a patient dons a nasal clip that the machine uses to orientate itself.
From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2020
The extra syllable in orientate is ugly and unnecessary, though not a federal offense.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The pump orientates 360 degrees, so you can place it in any case configuration.
From The Verge ● Oct. 21, 2021
The church itself has a fine eastern fa�ade—it orientates to the west—of five arches with an intervening gallery.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
The orientates, though in infinite numbers, scarcely came out but in the night, when they made every thing in the cabins seem as if in motion, from the particular noise in crawling about.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
This orientates all the elements of the understanding, as the magnet collects into regular curves the filings of a magnetic metal.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave
S. Petronio is situated at its southern end, and orientates south by west.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny sediment particles are orientated.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
"He is very well orientated and is enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet, and will be released soon."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
Their assumption - which seems to be borne out by the Sora-Q image - is that the main spacecraft is orientated in a way that prevents the solar cells from seeing the Sun.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
To be orientated in space is to be directed, or find yourself directed, to someone or something.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
McGinley’s recent imagery, exhibited for the first time at the Marlborough show, is his most compositional work yet, orientating his youthful bodies in the flood of colour and light that nature provides in full bloom.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2020
It therefore assists us in properly orientating ourselves to read another treatise from the greatest mathematician of antiquity that sets clearly before us his indebtedness to the mechanical applications of his subject.
From Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes by Archimedes
"Christopher Mead, Assistant Undersecretary for External Affairs," the assistant said, orientating himself.
From Citadel by Dongen, H. R. van
So, orientating once more like a fragile tendril, he reached again for the banister rail, and got it.
From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Phobos was just rising in the west, and orientating herself by this tiny moon she struck out in a north-easterly direction, seeking a favorable current to carry her toward Tarog.
From The Martian Cabal by Starzl, Roman Frederick
