orientate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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orientates,
present (3rd person singular)
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orientated,
past participle, past
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orientating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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orientatesimple
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orientatessimple
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have orientatedperfect
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has orientatedperfect
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am orientatingprogressive
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are orientatingprogressive
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is orientatingprogressive
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have been orientatingperfect progressive
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has been orientatingperfect progressive
Past
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orientatedsimple
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had orientatedperfect
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was orientatingprogressive
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were orientatingprogressive
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had been orientatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of orientate
Example Sentences
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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
We will first orientate you by showing you an inverted map of North America so the eclipse's point of entry is at the top of the page and the exit at the bottom.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
Their horizons have no landmarks to hang on to: nothing to orientate yourself toward.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
Bells inside the ball help orientate the players by indicating the direction of the oncoming ball.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2021
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 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 Robert Kerr
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 Gustave Le Bon
S. Petronio is situated at its southern end, and orientates south by west.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
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
Streets are narrow and orientated to channel the typically northwestern breeze.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
“We have to get orientated first,” I said.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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
"Christopher Mead, Assistant Undersecretary for External Affairs," the assistant said, orientating himself.
From Citadel by H. R. van Dongen
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 Roman Frederick Starzl
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
So, orientating once more like a fragile tendril, he reached again for the banister rail, and got it.
From Aaron's Rod by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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